Quattlebaum v. Triplett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is a distinction to be observed in the use of the word ‘child’ in statutes passed for the protection of children, and its use in the law of descents and distribution. In the former case ‘child’ means a person of tender years, without regard to parentage, while in the law of wills and intestacy age has nothing to do with the question, and parentage everything.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pearman v. People