Carpenter v. Fopper’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““At the common law, and in the absence of a statute, the administrator has no right to the possession, even, of the real estate. Under the statute (R. S. sec. 3823) [now sec. 312.04] he has no right to the possession unless there are claims against the estate unpaid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Estate of Rieman