Huggins v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It seems to us that the rule to be deduced from the foregoing cases is this: That while, as a general proposition, it is true that lands of an intestate may be sold under a judgment recovered against the administrator, upon a debt of the. intestate, yet if the lands have passed into the actual and exclusive possession of the heirs before the judgment has been recovered, and before any lien has thus been fixed upon them, they can no longer be sold under such judgment, and can only be reached by the usual proceedings to subject real estate, in the hands of the heir, to the payment of the debts of the ancestor, * * * to which proceedings the heir would, of course, be a necessary party.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rowell v. Hyatt