Overheiser v. . Lackey’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably In Re the Transfer Tax Upon the Estate of McKelway (1917), Stout v. Van Zante (1923)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Purdy v. . Hayt · Mills v. . Husson · Simons v. Bollinger · Mustain v. Gardner
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every estate granted or devised to two or more persons in their own right shall be a tenancy in common unless expressly declared to be a joint tenancy.” Real Property Law of New York (Consol. Caws, c. 50) Caws 1909, c. 52, § 66.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It was held at an early date, however, in this state that the provision of the Revised Statutes which has been quoted did .not necessarily require that the words ‘joint tenancy’ should be used in a grant or devise to create an estate of that character provided any other expression clearly importing such an Intent was employed. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kissam v. McElligott
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.