Doll v. Doll’s Empirical Analysis

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46 state decisions

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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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Collation is the returning to the estate of a deceased person any gifts or advances which any of the descendant heirs may have received by donation or otherwise during the lifetime of the ancestor from whom the heirs inherit. * * * This is explained in article 1227 of the Civil Code, where it is declared that the purpose of the collation is `in order that such property [collated] may be divided together with the other effects of the succession.' * * * But a demand for collation cannot be made in a suit for a partition of property belonging to co-owners or co-proprietors, and not to a succession. If the descendant heirs of a deceased person accept his or her succession unconditionally and obtain a judgment sending them into possession of the estate as owners, and thus close the succession, the heirs are thenceforth co-proprietors of the property theretofore belonging to the succession —in the same way as if they had acquired their joint ownership by purchase instead of acquiring it by inheritance. * * * It is so declared in article 1242 of the Civil Code, thus: `The collation is made only to the succession of the donor.'"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 150 So. 2d 671 - Kinney v. Kinney · 468 So. 2d 1279 - Succession of Riggio