Twigger v. Twigger’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1963
6 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 Orthwein v. Thomas · Thornburg v. Wiggins · Sturgis v. Sturgis · Jacobs v. Miller · Campau v. Campau
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the first of these sections the tenants are referred to as ‘two or more persons.’ In the next, after abolishing joint tenancy, the phrase is ‘all persons having an undivided interest in real property. ’ Neither of these expressions can refer to the common-law unity cast upon husband and wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Erickson v. Erickson
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.