McElreath v. McElreath’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Huntington v. Attrill · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission · Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It Is Further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed by the court that the plaintiff have and she is hereby awarded as alimony an undivided one-third interest in and to the interest owned by the defendant in the Estate of A. R. McElreath, Sr., deceased, either distributed or in the process of probate, and said defendant is hereby ordered and directed to execute good and proper conveyances of such interest in said property to the plaintiff herein within sixty (60) days from the date hereof."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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