Melton v. Ensley’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably In Re Estate of LaGarce (1972), Brandon v. State (1980)
27 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 Commerce Trust Co. v. Watts · Simonich v. Wilt · Ashley v. Williams · In Re Estate of Smith · Estate of Kaimann v. Kaimann
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the deposit is neither made within the words or purview of the joint deposit statutes nor accompanied by a joint tenancy deposit agreement, no . . . joint tenancy with the attendant right of survivorship [is created] and the burden is cast upon the survivor to show by a preponderance of the evidence the deposit was made with the intention of creating a joint tenancy. It is the intention of the depositor which controls,. . . and not the mere form in which the deposit is made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the deposit is neither made within the words or purview of the joint deposit statutes nor accompanied by a joint tenancy deposit agreement, no presumption of joint tenancy with the attendant right of survivorship arises and the burden is cast upon the survivor to show by a preponderance of the evidence the deposit was made with the intention of creating a joint tenancy. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaines v. Vallance
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.