Winchester v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
265 F.2d 405 · 1959
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2015
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Reid v. Barry · Kozacik v. Kozacik · Hobbs v. Frazier · 105 So. 2d 912 - Little River Bank & Trust Company v. Eastman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where real property is conveyed or devised to husband and wife and a third person or persons, the husband and wife, being but one person in law, will together take only an undivided moiety or half of the estate, leaving the other half to the third person, or, if there are two other grantees or devisees, then husband and wife will take[] only one third of the subject matter, and so on in accordance with the number of persons entitled. As between themselves, a husband and wife are tenants by the entirety of their share, but as to the third person they are together a joint tenant or tenant in common with him.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As between themselves, husband and wife are tenants by entirety of their share, but as to the third person they are together a joint tenant or tenant in common with him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.