23 Ark. App. 203 - Lofton v. Lofton’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably McKay v. McKay (2000), 53 Ark. App. 41 - Creson v. Creson (1996)
44 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 Boyles v. Boyles · Black v. Black · Warren v. Warren · Branch v. Polk · Roulston v. Hall
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen any circuit court in this state renders a final decree of divorce, any estate by the entirety or survivorship in real or personal property held by the parties to the divorce shall be automatically dissolved unless the court order specifically provides otherwise, and in the division and partition of the property, the parties shall be treated as tenants in common.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re White“[O]nce property, whether personal or real, is placed in the names of persons who are husband and wife, without specifying the manner in which they take, there is a presumption that they own the property as tenants by the entirety and it takes clear and convincing evidence to overcome that presumption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Jackson“Depositing inherited funds in a joint account is typically done as a matter of convenience with the only legal consideration being the avoidance of probate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.