Benzon v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1963
20 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 Chippendale v. North Adams Savings Bank · Kelley v. Snow · New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Archibald · Deal's Adm'r v. Merchants & Mechanics Savings Bank · Perry v. Leveroni
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it may be conceded the husband in fact made the deposit, he certainly, by that deposit, gave his wife an indivisible and unseverable interest in the deposit. It must, therefore, be an interest in the nature of a joint tenancy with the attendant right of survivorship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crowell v. Milligan
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.