342 So. 2d 236 - Simmons v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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. “"[T]he adopted person and his lawful descendants are relieved of all of their legal duties and divested of all of their legal rights with regard to the blood parent or parents and other blood relatives, except the right of inheritance from them."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Citizen v. American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. · 520 So. 2d 996 - Domingue v. Carencro Nursing Home, Inc.

2. “The jurisprudence is clear that LSA-R.C.C. Article 2315 [the wrongful death statute] is not part of the law of successions and thus, neither the survival action nor the wrongful death action are rights which are transmitted from the tort victim to his heirs as an inheritance. ... . The right to recover for a wrongful death is not an inheritance right. That right of action in tort is a legal right which is divested from the child at the time of his adoption in accord with LSA-R.C.C. Article 214 [the adoption statute].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 687 So. 2d 1171 - Estate of Jones v. Howell

3. “"The jurisprudence is clear that LSA-R.C. Article 2315 is not part of the law of successions and thus, neither the survival action nor the wrongful death action are rights which are transmitted from the tort victim to his heirs as an inheritance. King v. Cancienne, La. 316 So.2d 366 (1975); Moore v. Kinney, 315 So.2d 340 (La.App. 3 Cir.1975); Collins v. Becnel 297 So.2d 506 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1974)."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 520 So. 2d 996 - Domingue v. Carencro Nursing Home, Inc.