12 Utah 2d 388 - Tangren v. Ingalls’s Empirical Analysis

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19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * [W]here there is a written agreement of joint tenancy with right of survivorship, there is a presumption of validity and it will be given effect unless it is successfully attacked for fraud, mistake, incapacity, or other infirmity, or unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the parties intended otherwise; and further, that such rule is applicable whether the parties are living or where death has intervened. * * * (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 21 Utah 2d 17 - Beehive State Bank v. Rosquist

2. “It is of passing interest to note that in earlier times in cases dealing with such accounts, this court indicated a view that a survivor claiming the fund after the death of the original owner had the burden of showing that the latter intended to make a gift of the fund. But that view is long since outmoded. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 21 Utah 2d 17 - Beehive State Bank v. Rosquist