Wood v. Biggs’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Art. 12, secs. 1 and 2 of the Oklahoma Constitution, and Tit. 31 O.S.,1961 §§ 1 and 2, define the “constitutional” homestead and exempt the same from forced payment of 'the debts of the head of the family, or any person owning the land and residing thereon, except the holders of expressly enforceable liens. This is an exemption granted by law for the benefit of the family occupying the property as a home, (emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re McKinney-Jones

2. ““. . . This is a personal and individual right of the surviving spouse to continue to occupy the homestead, and is not an interest in the testator’s property, . . . .” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re the Estate of Dawson