Chapman v. Tipton’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the defendant spouse is the head of the family, and the plaintiff obtains a divorce on account of fault or misconduct, the title to the homestead shall be vested, by the decree of the court granting the divorce, in the plaintiff, and after the plaintiff’s death, it shall pass to the children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Sivley