Dean v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 44 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our statute provides that immediately upon the intestate’s death, the title to real estate descends to the heirs at law, subject to the widow’s dower and the payment of debts. See § 61-101 Ark. Stats. 1947. The two sections (§ 62-411 and § 62-911, Ark. Stats. 1947), concerning lands as assets in the hands of the administrator, have been uniformly construed to mean that the title to the lands passes direct to the heirs on the death of the intestate, subject to the rights of the administrator to have the Probate Court sell the lands if such be necessary to pay the debts of the deceased. [Footnote and citations omitted. Emphasis added.] ””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pfaff v. Heizman · Parker v. Bowlan

2. ““It is therefore, by the Court considered, ordered and adjudged that the Petition for Order Nunc Pro Tunc and Amendment to Petition for Order Nunc Pro Tunc filed herein, be, and the same is granted and the clerk of this Court, be, and he is hereby directed to enter now for then the following corrected order and judgment: 1 Come J. Y. Mann and files his Petition praying the court for an order adopting Tom and Lawson Ozment as the Sons of the said J. Y. Mann and it appearing from the evidence of the said J. Y. Mann and others that J. Y. Mann is a resident and citizen of Bradley County, Arkansas, and that the said Tom Ozment is only 8 years of age and Lawson Ozment is 11 years of age and that both Tom Ozment and Lawson Ozment are residents and citizens of Bradley County, Arkansas, and that the said children have no parents living. The Petition of the said J. Y. Mann is by the court considered and granted. It is therefore by the Court ordered that the said children, be, and they are hereby adopted as the sons of the said J. Y. Mann and they shall be entitled to receive all the rights and interests in the estate of such adopted Father by descent or otherwise. “It is further ordered that this order shall not in any wise either in law or equity be construed or held to effect or prejudice the rights of any person or persons who may have acquired either by purchase or descent any vested rights in the estate either real or personal of J. T. Mann, now deceased, who have not had notice o”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ozment v. Mann

3. ““J. Y. Mann Petition to have Tom & Lawson Ozment adopted as his Sons. GRANTED. “Comes J. Y. Mann and files his petition praying the Court for an order adopting Tom & Lawson Ozment as the sons of the said J. Y. Mann and it appearing from the evidence of the said J. Y. Mann and others that the said Tom Ozment is only 8 years of age and Lawson Ozment is 11 years old and that the said children have no parents living. The Petition of the said J. Y. Mann is by the Court considered and granted. It is Therefore by the Court ordered that the said children be and they are hereby adopted as the sons of the said J. Y. Mann and they shall be entitled to and receive all the rights and interests in the estate of such adopted Father by descent or otherwise. “It is ordered that Court adjourn until Tuesday Morning at 9 O’clock, s/ J. C. Bratton, Judge.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ozment v. Mann