Wolfe v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1991
12 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 Mitchell v. Frederick · Mittel v. Karl · McCallum's Estate · Doran v. Beale · Goggin v. Goggin
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All conveyances or devises of land made to two or more persons, or to a husband and wife, shall be construed to create estates in common, and not in joint tenancy or entirety, unless it manifestly appears, from the tenor of the instrument that it was intended to create an estate in joint tenancy or entirety with the right of survivorship; but this provision shall not apply to mortgages or devises, or conveyances made in trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The common law favored joint tenan- ■ cies. Under it a conveyance to two or more persons not husband and wife created a joint tenancy; if to husband and wife, an estate in entirety. To create an estate in common, it was necessary to add restrictive or explanatory words showing an intent to create such an estate.” ( 42 So.2d at 438, 439 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In that case, this Court considered the statute as it existed at that time and said: We think the deed under consideration do manifest an intention to create an estate in joint tenancy and not an estate in common. The first conveys the property to the grantees”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.