McDonald v. Morley’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Concrete Service Corp. v. Investors Group, Inc. (1986), Concrete Service Corp. v. Investors Group, Inc. (1986)
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Siberell v. Siberell · Delanoy v. Delanoy · Witt v. City of San Francisco
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"At the time when Mr. and Mrs. McDonald made their agreement, they held title to the property `as joint tenants'. Such an estate requires unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession. * * * A distinguishing incident of it is the right of survivorship. * * * But by their contract the parties specifically provided that if either one of them died, the interest of that one should not go to the survivor but to the daughter. This is entirely inconsistent with an estate in joint tenancy, which was thereby terminated. * * * Thereafter, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald were tenants in common with separate descendible interests."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coffey v. Price
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.