Ames v. Hubby’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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But oven had the grant of these certificates been made to remunerate those to whom they were issued for services rendered, they would still be separate property of the donee. In the cose of Fisk v. Flores, 43 Tex. 340 , we had occasion to examine (Ms subject somewhat at length, and we found it laid down by the highest authority that a donation in remuneration or compensation for services by one of the spouses is not a part of the community property. Says Eschriche, [Diccionario de Legislación, p. 367:] ‘Remunerativo or compensatory donations which are made to one of the consorts for Ms or her individual merits form no part of the community estate;’ and that which the husband acquires by military service, and the rewards bestowed upon Mm by the government for such services, is his separate property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kircher v. Murray

2. ““Now, the very language oí this statute imports a direct gift. It was not a grant in fulfillment of an antecedent promise or undertaking, as was the fact in tee case of Goldsmith v. Herndon, 33 Tex. 705 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kircher v. Murray