Babb v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Li. X. The law (Xov. Hoc. 1, tit. 22, lib. 10) declared that, where there were no heirs, ascendants or descendants, the property of the deceased! should go to the treasury. There were previous laws which secured the surviving husband or wife in the succession of the deceased, under certain cost-tingeneies. The law (Nov. Kec. 31, tit. 2, lib. 4) of the Ifuoro .forgo, which gave the. inheritance to the surviving husband or wife when there were b® other relations of the deceased to the seventh degree, and the law (6 Nov. Roe. tit 13, pt. 6) by which the surviving husband or wife succeeded to the estate, when There were no relations within the tenth degree. Bat these laws were, by commentators generally, supposed to be impliedly repealed by the law above recited from ike Recopilación, although some were of a different opinion, on the ground that the terms of the law in the Recopilación were general, and did not refer specifically to the former laws on the rights of surviving husband or wife under those laws. The received opinion of commentators has been held as the rale in Texas, namely, that under the» Spanish law the surviving husband or wife, under no circumstances, succeeded to the whole estate of deceased, as his heir, and only to the marital fourtln when necessary as a relief against poverty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kircher v. Murray