Rowley v. Stray’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 15 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A discrimination against the half-blood is the exception, and is not to be extended by construction beyond the obvious intent. And nothing seems plainer to us than that under this statute, the half-blood are only excluded when there are others in the same statutory class who are to be preferred by reason of being of the blood of the ancestor from whom the estate came to the intestate.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lyon v. Crego · McDonnall v. Drawz

2. “"Kindred of the half blood inherit equally with those of the whole blood in the same degree, unless the inheritance come to the intestate by descent, devise or gift of some one of his ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the blood of such ancestors must be excluded from such inheritance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. Smith

3. “when the inheritance falls to a certain designated class of persons, these will share it equally unless the estate was ancestral, in which case the half blood not of the blood of the ancestor shall be excluded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Estate of Belshaw