Nunn v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Fadalla v. Fadalla (2005), 456 So. 2d 1047 - Dominex, Inc. v. Key (1984)
4 federal appellate · 76 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 Killingsworth v. Killingsworth · Owens v. Owens · Bernhard v. Bernhard · Summerlin v. Bowden · Shrout v. Seale
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]e hold that [§ 35-4-7, Code 1975] recognizes joint tenancy, with right of survivorship, as a valid estate in realty or personalty, and that it differs from the common law estate of the same name only in so far as (1) the statutory requirement that the intention to have the right of survivorship must be clearly expressed in the instrument of the conveyance, and (2) elimination of the common law unity of time."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In a joint tenancy at common law each tenant was seized of some fractional share while at the same time each owned the whole. The most significant feature of such a tenancy was the right of survivorship. When one joint tenant died, the deceased's share was owned by the surviving tenants jointly, until only one remained, who then owned the fee. The last survivor took nothing by survivorship as he had always owned the whole. The deaths of the other joint tenants merely removed impediments to the survivor's complete ownership."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... provided, however, that in the event it is stated in the instrument creating such tenancy, that such tenancy is with right of survivorship, or other words used therein showing such intention, then upon the death of one joint tenant, his interest shall pass to the surviving joint tenant or tenants according to the intent of such instrument. Code of Alabama, 1940 (Recomp.1958), Title 47 Section 19 [Code of Alabama 1975 Section 35-4-7.]”
3 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.