Yiatchos v. Yiatchos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 3 district · 102 state decisions

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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]hether or not there is fraud which will bar the named beneficiary in a particular case must be determined as a matter of federal law. . . .”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ridgway v. Ridgway · Sheppard v. Sheppard

2. ““Article I, Section 8, Clause 2 of the Constitution delegates to the Federal Government the power ‘[t]o borrow Money on the credit of the United States.’ Pursuant to this grant of ' power, the Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, to issue savings bonds in such form and under such conditions as he may from time to time prescribe, * * *. Exercising that authority, the Secretary ’of • the Treasury issued savings bonds' under regulations which provided, inter alia, that the co-owner of a savings bond issued in the ‘or’ form who survives the other co-owner ‘will be recognized as the sole and absolute owner’ of the bond, 31 CFR § 315.61 , and that ‘[n]o judicial determination will be. recognized which would * * * defeat or impair the rights of survivorship conferred by these regulations,’ 31 CFR § 315.20 . The Treasury has consistently maintained that the purpose of these regulations is to establish the right of survivorship regardless of local state law. * * * The clear purpose of the regulations is to confer the right of survivorship on the surviving co-owner. Thus, the survivorship -provision is a federal law which must prevail if it conflicts with state law. * i- * “The success of the management of the national debt depends to a significant measure upon the success of the sales of the savings bonds. The Treasury is authorized to make' the bonds attractive to savers and investors, One of the inducements selected by the Treasury i”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thaxton v. Thaxton

3. “The validity of this contention turns on a question of state law about which we are not entirely clear and which may be resolved upon remand. According to the court below, the widow bad a “vested one-half interest” in the bonds, which may mean that under Washington law the wife before and after death has a half interest in each item of the community estate, including the particular bonds involved in this case, and cannot be forced to take cash or something else of equal value upon a division of the community property between herself and those entitled to take her husband’s half.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 6 Wash. App. 464 - In Re Estate of Patton