Daniels v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Descent where no father or mother. The estate of an intestate, in default of a father and mother, shall go as follows: one-half to the brothers and sisters, and their descendants of the father; and the other one-half to the brothers and sisters, and their descendants, of the mother; provided, that if such line of either the father or the mother shall be extinct, then the entire estate shall go to such line of the other. This provision applies only where there are no kindred, either lineal or collateral, who stand in a near[er] relation, and does not apply to ancestral estates.” (The word near should be nearer. See Daniels v. Johnson, infra.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dean v. Stuckey

2. ““It is as though. § 61-111 read: ‘The estate of an intestate, in default of [descendants, or brothers or sisters or their descendants, or] a father and mother, shall go as follows . . .’ This gives § 61-111 its proper function, which is to define tlie manner of descent and distribution of non-ancestral estate under the third sub-paragraph of § 61-101.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dean v. Stuckey

3. ““It is also well established in Arkansas that community reputation is admissible as evidence of marital status. Farmer v. Towers, 106 Ark. 123 , 152 S. W. 993 ; Thomas v. Thomas, 150 Ark. 43 , 233 S. W. 808 ; Martin v. Martin, 212 Ark. 204 , 205 S. W. 2d 189 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Butler v. Alldredge