Michael Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2006
14 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 TEACHER v. Kijurina · Mardis, Administratrix v. Steen · Maxwell v. Saylor · 165 Pa. Super. 78 - Frederick, Admr. v. Southwick · Redemptorist Fathers v. Lawler
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“BETWEEN ROBERT J. McGEE and MARYANN McGEE, husband and wife, of R.D. # 2, Box 2279, E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, GRANTORS, parties of the first part, AND BETTY J. MILLER and [Appellant], as tenants in common, of 64 Springville Rd., Quarryville, Pennsylvania, GRANTEES, parties of the second part, WITNESSETH, that the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of SIXTY-FOUR THOUSAND ($64,000.00) — Dollars, lawful money of the United States of America unto them well and truly paid by the said parties of the second part, at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents to grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release, convey and confirm unto the said parties of the second part, their heirs, and assigns, ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND with a dwelling and garage erected thereon situate in Gleason Hollow in the Township of An-nin, County of McKean and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described according to a plan thereof by K.R. Comstock, Jr., Registered Survey- or, dated April 9,1951 [...].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If partition be not made between joint tenants, whether they be such as might have been compelled to make partition or not, or of whatever kind the estates or thing holden or possessed be, the parts of those who die first shall not accrue to the survivors, but shall descend or pass by devise, and shall be subject to debts, charges, curtesy or dower, or transmissible to executors or administrators, and be considered to every other intent and purpose in the same manner as if such deceased joint tenants had been tenants in common: Provided always, That nothing in this act shall be taken to affect any trust estate.”
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.