Coleman v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.2d 98 · 1960
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Alpher v. Preston (1971), Cobb v. Gilmer (1966)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 20 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 Hunt v. Blackburn · Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. O'Connor · TEACHER v. Kijurina · Fairclaw v. Forrest · Maxwell v. Saylor
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words used, ‘tenants by the entirety,’ mean in law that the parties wanted the property to be inalienable by either during their joint lives, and on the death of one they wished the survivor to take all. Because they were hot married and because inalienability is an incident only of estates by the entireties, the law denies them the first of these wishes. But it does not follow that it must deny them the second as well. Survivorship, the salient feature of joint tenancy, is also perhaps the most important feature of tenancy by the entireties; the other major attribute of the latter estate, inalienability, is in part only a means to protect the right of the survivor to take. Although there are differences between joint tenancies and tenancies by the en-tireties, the marked similarities between the two forms of cotenancy cannot be ignored.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he two great attributes of tenancy by the entireties [are] the right of survivor-ship and the inability of .either spouse acting alone to alienate an interest in the property during the joint lives of the two. The right of the survivor to take all is an attribute of joint tenancy as well, but only in tenancy by the entireties is it impossible for one cotenant to sell or pledge his interest or to compel a partition of the property. Tenancy by the entireties exists today under the law of the District [of Columbia].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]very 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; * * *.”
2 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.