Brown v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 1972
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Berg v. Berg's Administrator
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.
““Collaterals of the halfblood shall inherit only half as much as those of the wholeblood, or as ascending kindred, when they take with either.” (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ragland v. Shrout
How this case has been treated — in progress
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