Cockrill v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2009
24 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no question as to the intention of this enactment, and under it we must hold: That it is only where the grant is to executors or trustees, as such, or where by the terms of the grant or devise, a joint tenancy is devised, that a joint tenancy can exist. It is, therefore, not sufficient that an estate be granted or devised to several persons to make them joint tenants. The deed or devise must declare that they are such, in order to bring the parties within the common law rule upon the subject of joint tenancy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Mitchell
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.