Sheldon v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
168 F.2d 483 · 1948
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Costello v. Fazio (1958), United States v. American National Bank of Jacksonville (1958)
13 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Dodson v. National Title Insurance Co. · English v. English · Stewart v. Ganey · Anderson v. Trueman · Newman v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]ithout an agreement neither alone can [do] anything to alter the tenancy of identifiable property so held.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The income from, or the proceeds of, the sale of real estate held by the entirety is equally the property of the husband and the wife. It is held by the unity. Either one taking possession holds for the benefit of both. That is the rationale of our prior decisions." [emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Hanger““We conclude there was some sort of agreement between Mr. and Mrs. Waters, for there was conduct by one inconsistent with the continuance of the tenancy by the entirety, acquiesced in by the other. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Killgo v. James
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.