Ray v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This Court has dealt with the language of the statute here at issue in cases where the minor child committed by a valid decree of divorce to the exclusive custody of one parent died, intestate, during the child’s minority, unmarried and without issue, and has consistently applied the literal language of the statute holding the parent having custody was the sole next of kin, and would take all the personal property. Black v. Roberts, 172 Tenn. 20 , 108 S.W.2d 1097 (1937); Damron v. Damron, 212 Tenn. 14 , 367 S.W.2d 476 (1963).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Spencer v. Malone Freight Lines, Inc.