Alberty v. Alberty’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. ““We think the iword ‘care,’ as used in this section of the statute, requires that the parent in whose behalf its discriminatory and excessive benefit is asserted must be shown to have borne practically the entire burden of parental duty towards the minor, including maintenance and such other expenses as such duty requires, at the time of the minor’s death and during substantially tlie full period of such separation of parents, to be entitled to such exclusive inheritance’’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stafford v. Stovall · Bruner v. King

2. ““If there be no issue, nor husband nor wife, nor father nor mother, then in equal shares to the brothers and sisters of the decedent, and to the children, of any deceased brother or sister, by right of representation; if the deceased, being a minor, leave no issue, the estate must go to the parents equally if living together, if not living together, to the parent having had the care) of said deceased minor.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stafford v. Stovall · Bruner v. King

3. “‘Til Iheory the controversy involved the construction and application of the third subdivision of section 8418, Rev. Laws 1910, but in reality it involved merely a question of fact as to wbo bad cared for and supported tbe minor child.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bruner v. King