McComas v. Glendinning’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * Abbott’s Dictionary of Terms and Phrases defines ‘abandonment’ as the relinquishment, surrender, or disclaimer of one’s rights, and says: ‘But the surrender of a relation, involving as it does the disclaimer of duties more prominently than that of rights, is better styled desertion,’ and defines ‘desertion’ as ‘the abandonment of a relation or service in which one owes duties; the quitting, wilfully and without right, one’s duties; the withdrawal, unexcused, from the obligations of some condition or status.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shumway v. Farley

2. ““In this case it appears from the petition that the father did not desert his son, but that the care, custody, and control of the son were taken from him by a decree of court. Under the Georgia law such a decree would preclude a prosecution for abandonment in the absence of an actual abandonment and the mother and son would be relegated to their remedies under the decree for the reason that there is no voluntary action when the law takes jurisdiction and fixes the status of the parties. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shumway v. Farley