Dover Trust Co. v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2015
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Transfer Tax Upon the Estate of McKelway · Hill v. Beach · Morristown Trust Co. v. Capstick · Morristown Trust Co. v. Safford · Clements v. Jessup
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This account and all moneys to be credited to it belongs to us as joint tenants, and will be the absolute property of the survivor of us; either and the survivor to draw.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.