Douglas v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It seems to be the policy of all the statutes at some point more or less remote to cut off representation entirely among collaterals, and where, because of unequal degrees of kinship, representation would otherwise be necessary, to defeat it by making a per capita distribution among those nearest in degree and excluding the more remote. Our law seems to reach that period where, at any point among collaterals beyond the children of brothers and sisters, the surviving kindred fall into unequal degrees. This is the construction given elsewhere to statutes resembling ours [citing cases]. Cases holding a different rule, so far as we have found any, have been under statutes which by their clear, language required a different construction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re the Estate of McKay

2. ““These three clauses, therefore, form a scheme of inheritance among collaterals, embracing incidentally the case of the mother. They pursue an exclusive process, and must be read, in order to give the whole effect, as if, in addition to stating what kindred do not survive, they also stated that there were surviving those next in degree not named in the exclusive clauses.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schneider v. Payne