DeYoung v. Mesler’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2015
6 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All bonds, certificates of stock, mortgages, promissory notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness hereafter made payable to persons who are husband and wife, or made payable to them as endorsees or assignees, or otherwise, shall be held by such husband and wife in joint tenancy unless otherwise therein expressly provided, in the same manner and subject to the same restrictions, consequences and conditions as are incident to the ownership of real estate held jointly by husband and wife under the laws of this state, with full right of ownership by survivorship in case of the death of either.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In Michigan, the common-law rule that a conveyance to husband and wife creates a tenancy by the entirety has persisted except in respect to conveyances explicitly indicating that some other kind of tenancy is intended. Even the qualifying phrase `as joint tenants,' while sufficient to create a joint tenancy in a conveyance to grantees generally, does not avoid the creation of an estate by the entirety when the grantees stand in the marital relation to each other." [ Id. at 504 , 130 N.W.2d 38 , quoting Comm'r of Internal Revenue v. Hart, 76 F.2d 864, 865 (C.A.6,1935).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“appears to require that in order not to create a tenancy by the entirety in realty conveyed to husband and wife, even the use of the words "as joint tenants" is insufficient. The only alternative seems to be to use the words "not as tenants by the entirety" when such is the intent of the conveyance. [ DeYoung, supra at 503-504 , 130 N.W.2d 38 .]”
1 later decision 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.