Spark v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably In Re Estate of Biege (1958), Edwards v. Ledford (1968)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Malone v. Sullivan · Bouska v. Bouska · Withers v. Barnes · Asche v. Matthews · Edwards v. Commissioner
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Real or personal property granted or devised to two or more persons including a grant or devise to a husband and wife shall create in them a tenancy in common with respect to such property unless the language used in such grant or devise makes it clear that a joint tenancy was intended to be created: . .."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In order to create a joint tenancy with the right of survivorship language must be used to make clear the intention to create such an estate.” (Syl. 1.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.