Howard v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Layfield v. Department of Transportation · Shekhawat v. Jones · 193 Ga. App. 70 - Lamb v. Thalimer Enterprises, Inc. · 242 Ga. App. 627 - Parker v. Kennon · 186 Ga. App. 810 - James v. Elder
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“creates a presumption that a party funding a joint account does not intend to make a gift of the funds of the account during her life, but that the presumption is subject to rebuttal by clear and convincing evidence of a contrary intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LAW v. the STATE.“[a] joint account belongs, during the lifetime of all parties, to the parties in proportion to the net contributions by each to the sums on deposit, unless there is clear and convincing evidence of a different intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LAW v. the STATE.
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.