State Bank v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 9 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our decisions that the law of survivorship does not apply in the case of joint ownership of personal property does not affect the right of a donor to make a gift to his surviving wife.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ludwig v. Bruner · Hart v. Hart

2. ““intended to give her a present interest in this fund equal to his own, and that, in the event of his death, which he must have anticipated and which actually occurred on the second day after, to give her the entire fund. He did all that he could to carry out his intention and the question is, Did he go beyond an intention to make the gift? We are of the opinion that this question must be answered in the affirmative.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Negaunee National Bank v. Le Beau

3. ““F. J. Battersbee, Cashier of the State Bank of Croswell: Issue a new certificate in place of this one and make said certificate payable to Thomas Parker and Alice Parker or the survivor of them. his “Thomas X Parker.” mark”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Negaunee National Bank v. Le Beau