Sharp v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The exception of no cause of action was argued and submitted, and was sustained by the trial judge on the ground that petitioners had failed to allege that the defendant, the surviving wife, had been convicted of having killed or attempted to kill the deceased. "We think the trial judge was correct in his ruling on the exception. The record shows that the facts surrounding the death of the deceased had been investigated by the grand jury, which returned a `no true bill'. Under the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 966 of the Civil Code, which is the basis of plaintiff's suit, `Persons unworthy of inheriting and, as such, deprived of the succession to which they are called, are the following: "`1. Those who are convicted of having killed, or attempted to kill, the deceased; and in this respect they will not be the less unworthy, though they may have been pardoned after their conviction.'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 163 So. 2d 425 - Succession of Medica