Vasilion v. Vasilion’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Oliver v. Givens (1963), Reid v. Richardson (1962)
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 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 Hunt v. Blackburn · Beihl v. Martin · Lang v. Commissioner · Otto F. Stifel's Union Brewing Co. v. Saxy · Ades v. Caplin
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 250 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And if hereafter any estate, real or personal, be conveyed or devised to a husband and his wife, they shall take and hold the same by moieties in like manner as if a distinct moiety had been given to each by a separate conveyance.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . where a tenancy by entirety in the fee simple is once created the property is completely immune from the claims of creditors against either husband or wife . . . ... a creditor cannot do with the right of a tenant by the entirety that which the tenant cannot do . . . Since the wife cannot sell it herself, her creditor cannot sell it by resort to attachment and levy on an execution at law ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowman v. DeLong · Bunker v. Peyton“[u]nder the common law the same words of conveyance which would make other grantees joint tenants will make a husband and wife tenants by the entireties.”
2 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.