Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““1. When one of the spouses makes a transfer of property to the other, who is judicially separated from him or her, in payment of his or her rights. “2. When the transfer made by the husband to his wife, even though not separated, has a legitimate cause, as the replacing of her dotal or other effects alienated. “3. When the wife makes a transfer of property to her husband, in payment of a sum promised to him as a dowry.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Smith · 159 So. 2d 523 - Foster v. Smith

2. “Upon examination of the instrument of August 21, 1942, we find that it was a prohibited contract on its face at the time it was executed. If it was a prohibited contract at the time it was executed, no action or inaction on the part of the parties could afterwards render it valid. La.C.C. art. 2030 provides: A contract is absolutely null when it violates a rule of public order, as when the object of a contract is null or immoral. A contract that is absolutely null may not be confirmed. Absolute nullities may be invoked by any person or may be declared by the court on its own initiative.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 655 So. 2d 724 - Guste v. Hibernia Nat. Bank in New Orleans

3. ““Art. 2656. Delivery essential to a giving in payment “Art. 2656. That giving in payment differs from the ordinary contract of sale in this, that the latter is perfect by the mere consent of the parties, even before the delivery, while the giving ini payment is made only by delivery.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ernst v. Bordes