Magee v. Gatlin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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. ““The purpose of the usufruct in the survivor is to preserve the community and family and to grant unto the survivor the means for maintaining herself, or himself, and the children of the marriage. In our opinion, such waste and abuse must be shown on the part of the survivor as to show a lack of regard for the rights of the children.””

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

2. ““The usufruct may cease by the abuse which the usufructuary makes in his enjoyment, either in committing waste on the estate, or in suffering it to go to decay, for want of repairs, or in abusing in any other manner, the thing subject to the usufruct.’’”

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