Ashton v. Ashton’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1998
3 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 Kindleberger v. Lincoln Nat. Bank of Washington · Hawley v. Hawley · Frazier v. Kutz · Reynolds v. Reynolds · French v. Lanham
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A somewhat similar question arose in numerous cases involving United States Savings bonds which permit the designation of one to whom they shall be payable on death of the owner. By the great weight of authority such designation validly passes title on death of the owner and does not violate the local law of wills or distribution of decedents’ estates. [Ashton v. Ashton, D.C.Mun.App., 117 A.2d 459, 462 (1955).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is beyond question that the credit in the retirement fund was not an asset of decedent's estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by will, designation or otherwise, to dispose of th[e] credit.”
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.