Duling v. Duling's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Madden v. Rhodes (1993), 548 So. 2d 1323 - In Re Will and Estate of Strange (1989)
30 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 126 Cal. App. 306 - Young v. Young · In Re Lewis' Estate · Lindeman's Estate v. Herbert · Brown v. Navarre · Stephens v. Stephens
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a 1951 case, this Court stated: The general rule of law seems to be that in instances where a joint tenancy has been created by clear and unambiguous agreement, and the evidence of the existence of a contrary intention is not present, the Courts have held that a true joint tenancy has been created with respect to the contents of a safe deposit box and the surviving tenants become vested with title thereto.”
5 later decisions 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.