Rose v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
January 1997
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sellman v. Haddock · Yeo v. Tweedy · Smith v. Todd · Hamblin v. Marchant · State ex rel. Foy v. Austin Capital Management, Ltd.
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]here a person, who, by committing murder and where such person is convicted of either a capital, first or second degree felony, and might receive some benefit therefrom either directly or indirectly, the common-law maxim to the effect that one cannot take advantage of his own wrong, shall control and be applied to the interpretation, construction and application of all statutes or decisions of this state in order to deprive and prevent him from profiting from such wrongful acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the legislature had intended it as merely declaratory of the common law, it would have been easy to have said that one who is convicted of feloniously causing the death of another shall not benefit therefrom [as other states have done]. The legislature, by express and unambiguous language, prohibited only those convicted of murder from so profiting. In this instance, the legislative intent to limit the common-law maxim to one convicted of murder is clear and plain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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