Trezevant v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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. ““ * * *. It is true we have held that such agency is not incompatible *with the wife’s separate administration; but we were careful to emphasize the circumstances' which should characterize such administration. Thus we said: “ ‘Mrs. Jackson administered the plantation in her own name, her husband acting as her agent by virtue of procurations 'which she was always careful to prepare and to deposit with her merchants, who are shown to have recognized her authority as principal in all transactions. The accounts with her successive merchants were always kept in her name; she was credited with all its revenues and charged with all its expenses. Her husband, who conducted other plantations for his own account, kept his own accounts with the same merchants entirely separate from the wife’s plantation accounts.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hebert v. United States