Wolfe v. Sprouse’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2011
1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Vasilion v. Vasilion · Wilson v. Holyfield · Canal Corp. v. Finnman · Jones v. Conwell · Oliver v. Givens
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of these provisions is to abolish tenancies by the entirety (and joint tenancies) unless it is “manifest” from the wording of the conveyance that the grantor intends to establish a tenancy by the entirety. Allen v. Parkey, 154 Va. 739, 745 , 149 S.E. 615, 618 (1929) (dictum).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Sampath
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.