Murray v. Gadsden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 federal appellate · 9 district · 61 state decisions

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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a joint tenancy is not established unless it is the result of a gift or a trust as a condition precedent.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Richardson v. District of Columbia · 127 So. 2d 112 - Chase Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n v. Sullivan

2. ““This is a salutary exception to the parol evidence rule, because a court of equity should not permit the rule to defeat the admitted, or clearly proved, intention of the parties. It should be remembered too that a writing which is called a contract is merely a memorial of the parties’ agreement. It is simply evidence of the agreement and, if it be clear that it does not accurately reflect what the parties had agreed upon, monstrous injustice would be done by forcing upon them a contract which they had not actually made. * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2 Ill. App. 2d 560 - In Re Estate of Schneider · Ottjes v. Littlejohn

3. “[w]here a party opens a joint account for himself and another without consideration, the account is presumed opened for the convenience of that party.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Richardson v. District of Columbia · In Re Estate of Daniel