Thomas Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1997
24 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 Stevenson v. Economy Bank of Ambridge · Beisgen Estate · Webb Estate · Dalbey's Estate · Gerlach Estate
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Provident National Bank Account, which had been transferred into a joint account 5 5,399.82 (b) Philadelphia National Bank Account 2,431.11 (c) Girard Bank Account 4,815.48 (d) Proceeds derived from sale of real estate 28,285.41 540,931.82 Except as provided in section 712 of this code (relating to non-mandatory exercise of jurisdiction through orphans’ court division) ..., the jurisdiction of the court of common pleas over the following shall be exercised through its orphans’ court division: (17) Title to personal property. The adjudication of the title to personal property in the possession of the personal representative, or registered in the name of the decedent or his nominee, or alleged by the personal representative to have been in the possession of the decedent at the time of his death.”
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.