McManus v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2014
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 West Virginia ex rel. Sublett v. Adams · Mitchell v. Frederick · Marburg v. Cole · Schilbach v. Schilbach · Coleman v. Jackson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘a tenancy by the entirety cannot be established unless the grantees are legally married.’ ... It is true that under the predecessor of [Real Property Article] § 2-117 joint tenancies have been viewed with disfavor____ Although viewed with disfavor, it must be remembered that as to the formula for creation of joint tenancies ... ‘[t]he [statutory] requirement is only one of clear manifestation of intention, not one of particular words ...” (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Downing v. Downing
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.