Rogers v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “entitled to all rights and privileges . . . of a child born to such parent or parents in lawful wedlock.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Estate of Carlton · 581 So. 2d 454 - McIlvaine v. Amsouth Bank, N.A.

2. “(1) A judgment of adoption, whether entered by a court of this state, another *Page 461 state, or of any other place, has the following effect: ". . . . (c) It creates the relationship between the adopted person and the petitioner and all relatives of the petitioner that would have existed if the adopted person were a legitimate blood descendant of the petitioner. This relationship shall be created for all purposes, including inheritance and applicability of statutes, documents and instruments, whether executed before or after entry of the adoption judgment, that do not expressly exclude an adopted person from their operation or effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 581 So. 2d 454 - McIlvaine v. Amsouth Bank, N.A.

3. “In the present case the question is not whether statutes have made an adopted child the descendant of her father's ancestors but rather whether statutes have made an adopted child a descendant of her father, ... ( 348 So.2d at 897 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 371 So. 2d 878 - Dodds v. Deposit Guaranty Nat. Bank