Chambless v. Black’s Empirical Analysis

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20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““§ 315.45 Payment or reissue. A savings bond registered in the names of two persons as coowners in the form, for example, ‘John A. Jones or Mrs. Mary C. Jones,’ will be paid or reissued as follows: ifc :Jc ‡ “(c) If either coowner dies without having presented and surrendered the bond for payment or authorized reissue, the surviving coowner will be recognized as the sole and absolute ozvner of the bond and payment or reissue, as though the bond were registered in his name alone, will be made only to such survivor.” [Emphasis supplied.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Little

2. “This section, supra, reads as follows: “If her [the widow’s] separate estate be less in value than her dower, as ascertained by the rule furnished by the preceding section, and her distributive share, so much must be allowed her as, with her separate estate, would be equal to her dower and distributive share in her husband’s estate, if she had no separate estate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Birmingham Trust National Bank v. Cook

3. ““The personal estate of persons dying intestate as to such estate, after payment of debts and charges against the estate, is to be distributed in the same manner as his real estate, and according to the same rules; except that the widow, if there are no children, is entitled to all the personal estate, * * (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Birmingham Trust National Bank v. Cook