Tindall v. Yeats’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 105 Ill. 2d 215 - Harms v. Sprague (1984), 30 Cal. 2d 512 - Hammond v. McArthur (1947)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Deslauriers v. Senesac · Hardin v. Wolf · The People v. Donovan · Parker-Washington Co. v. City of Chicago · Porter v. Porter
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whereas the First Party has this day and date vested title in the parties hereto as joint tenants in the Marshall County, Illinois, farm owned by the First Party, all evidenced by certain deeds executed by the First Party and Martin A. Adams, her husband, and Walter C. Overbeck, all of the within date; “Now Therefore, in consideration of having vested title of said real estate as aforesaid, The Second Party herein, in consideration thereof, agrees with the First Party that said First Party shall have all the rentals from said real estate and the possession thereof during the term of her natural life, with power and authority to insure the buildings thereon, make repairs and do such other things thereon as she could or would do were she the sole and exclusive owner thereof. This Agreement shall not, however, in any manner affect the joint tenancy of said real estate nor the legal incidents accompanying same. “Dated this 31st day of May, A. D. 1939. “Grace M. Adams, (Seal) “Margaret Isabelle Yeats, (Seal)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Riegler““Joint tenants may contract with each other concerning the use of the common property, as for the exclusive use of the property by one of them, or the division of the income from the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Riegler
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.