Mushaw v. Mushaw’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably 58 Md. App. 386 - Sharp v. Sharp (1984), Oles Envelope Corp. v. Oles (1949)
6 federal appellate · 37 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 Newman v. Dore · Milholland v. Whalen · Sturgis v. Citizens National Bank · Collins v. Collins · Brown v. Fidelity Trust Co.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question to be determined is, therefore, whether the use of the [joint account] was fraudulent in the case at bar. The salient fact is that the widow is completely stripped of her marital rights in the personal property of her husband. This may be a matter of degree but it appears to be the only basis on which the decisions can be reconciled.” 183 Md. at 517”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winters v. Pierson“The trust provision made use of in these deposits, as an alternative to delivery of the subject-matter of the gift ..., is nothing more than a declaration that despite the retention of control by one of the beneficiaries, it is in the interest of both that the property is held.”
1 later decision 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.