Batchelor v. Batchelor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We hold that the Legislature in enacting Section 42(b) of the Probate Code, following the United States Supreme Court decision in Lalli, supra, designated the only three means by which an illegitimate child may inherit through his father. We think those means are exclusive, and if the Legislature had intended to include a “recognized” child as one able to inherit from its father, it would have said so in appropriate language.... It cannot be assumed that the Legislature intended for Section 3(b) to provide an alternative or additional means of intestate succession, especially when it took pains to set out the statutory procedures requisite to inheritance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Seyffert v. Briggs

2. “1. If he’s born or conceived before or during the marriage of his father and mother; 2. If he is legitimized by Court decree as provided in Chapter 13 of the Family Code; or 3. If the father has executed the statement of Paternity as provided in Section 13.22 of the Family Code, or a like statement properly executed in another jurisdiction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seyffert v. Briggs