Crabtree v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2023
10 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 Kozacik v. Kozacik · Cerny v. Cerny · Leonard v. Campbell · Crossman v. Naphtali · Lynch v. Murray
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the Barnett National Bank of Jacksonville, Florida: You are hereby authorized to receive for deposit and credit to the above-styled savings account any and all deposits made in the names of either or both of the undersigned, and payment upon the check or receipt of either or the survivor shall discharge you from liability. Each of the undersigned appoints the other as attorney in fact with power to deposit in the above-styled account funds of the other or both of the undersigned, and for that purpose to indorse any check, draft, or other instrument payable to the other or both of the undersigned. The undersigned hereby agree to your rules and regulations governing savings accounts as set forth in the pass book furnished upon the opening of this account and to such other rules and regulations as you may prescribe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We think, however, that the depository agreement, the savings bank book and the ledger sheet established a contract whereby the survivor, Doris B. Garcia, is entitled to ownership of the joint account on the death of her mother. It also shows that it was the intention of the parties to create a survivorship in the manner provided by Section 689.15, F.S.A.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the instrument creating the estate shall expressly provide for the right of survivorship * * *.”
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.