Murr v. Murr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Plaintiff and defendant were married on December 28, 1941. Plaintiff enlisted in the Navy on February 10,1942, and thereafter the parties were absent from each other until the wife visited him in New Jersey for approximately two weeks in January, 1943. Thereafter they were absent from each other until he visited the wife in Los Angeles from the 15th or 17th of July, 1943, to the 22d day of July, 1943. Thereafter they were absent from each other until November, 1944. The wife gave normal birth to a mature child, weighing 6% pounds, on January 21,1944, which date was 190 days after July 15,1943, or 188 days after July 17, 1943. The birth certificate, made by the attending physician, Dr. Rue, stated that the pregnancy was a nine-months’ pregnancy. The wife testified that she had never had sexual intercourse with anyone other than her' husband. “Section 1962 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides in part that: ‘The following presumptions, and no others, are deemed conclusive: 5. The issue of a wife cohabiting with her husband, who is not impotent, is indisputably presumed to be legitimate. ’ Section 1963 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides in part that: ‘All other presumptions are satisfactory, if uneontradieted. They are denominated disputable presumptions, and may be controverted by other evidence. The following are of that kind: ... 31. That a child born in lawful wedlock, there being no divorce from bed and board, is legitimate. ’ In Estate of McNamara, 181 Cal. 82 [ 18”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Heilman