Dessommes v. Dessommes’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 39 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he commingling of funds was the result of his acts rather than hers. He chose to remain in the same employment and so earned additional contributions to the fund. Although that course was not wrongful, it was certainly beyond plaintiffs control_ Also, proof of the essential facts is more assessible to him than to her. Defendants have cited no authorities, and our research has revealed none, which would support imposition of the burden on plaintiff.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boniface v. Boniface · Jackson v. Green

2. “We do not agree that a cause of action for recovery of personal property accrued in 1963. Plaintiff’s present petition seeks judgment for one-half of the benefits paid to defendant since August 1, 1969, and for a mandatory injunction requiring payment to plaintiff of one-half of all future benefits. This particular cause of action did not arise until the payments began, and any previous cause of action she may have had for declaration of her rights in the fund would have arisen only on a denial or repudiation of those rights. We need not determine whether failure to commence a declaratory judgment action within four .years after repudiation of her interest in the fund would bar a subsequent action to recover her share of the benefits paid, since this record shows no such repudiation more than four years before the suit was filed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yeo v. Yeo