Wiggins v. Parson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2012
7 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 Wilkerson v. State · Patterson v. Rossignol · 228 So. 2d 904 - DeVaney v. Rumsch · Carroll v. Hahn · 127 So. 2d 112 - Chase Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n v. Sullivan
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevents one unhealthy and unscrupulous joint tenant from defeating the donor's intent by withdrawing the joint funds in order to intentionally and wrongfully terminate the joint tenancy and the survivorship rights of the other donee tenants contrary to the intent of the donor that the other donee-tenants succeed to the funds rather than the estate of the donee-tenant who first dies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he law on joint bank accounts is far from uniform, and as one judge described it, `the law relating to it is in a state of morass, many of the cases which arise being treated very much on an ad hoc basis.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“joint tenancy nature of the [funds] and severs the right of survivorship as to the funds withdrawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sitomer v. Orlan
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.