Poynot v. Pfister’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Any person above the age of twenty years may adopt any person over the age of seventeen years, according to the following conditions; limitations and procedure: “(1) That the adoption shall be effected by the execution of a notarial act signed by the adoptive parent or parents and the person to be adopted, where the person to be adopted is a major or an emancipated minor, ...” “(2) That the notarial act executed in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Section shall be registered with the clerk of court of the parish in which the act is executed, except in the parish of Orleans, where it shall be registered with the register of conveyances for the parish of Orleans. . . . ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 405 So. 2d 1279 - Succession of Mims

2. ““Furthermore, there is no statutory or jurisprudential rule which mandates registration of the act of adoption at any particular time. Nor is there any clear indication that the time within which the recordation takes place (if, indeed, it is required) need be ‘reasonable.’ Finally, there is certainly no authority for the gratuitous imposition of a specific number of days upon which to make the ultimate determination of reasonableness where the legislature, itself, has chosen not to be definitive.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 405 So. 2d 1279 - Succession of Mims