Grass v. Grass’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2013
19 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 Levine v. Massey · Andrews v. Gorby · Fleet Bank Connecticut, N.A. v. Carillo · Frigon v. Enfield Savings & Loan Ass'n · DeCarlo & Doll, Inc. v. Dilozir
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a joint account has been established, however, depends solely on the deposit contract governing the account. See General Statutes §§ 36a-315 through 36a-323 (Deposit Account Contract Act).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A bank is indebted to its account holders for the amount of the funds that they have deposited. Frigon v. Enfield Savings Loan Assn. , 195 Conn. 82 , 87 , 486 A.2d 630 (1985). Pursuant to § 36a-290 (a), 2 `a bank is authorized to release up to the entire balance of a joint account to each and any coholder who so demands . . . [T]his authorization not only provides protection for payor banks but also recognizes a sufficient property interest in each coholder to warrant characterizing all such deposits as a debt due to each coholder . . .' Fleet Bank Connecticut, N.A. v. Carillo , 240 Conn. 343 , 350 , 691 A.2d 1068 (1997). Our Supreme Court has stated that `[a] signature card is essential to the creation of a bank account . . .' Frigon v. Enfield Savings Loan Assn. , supra , 87.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen a deposit account has been established at any bank . . . in the names of two or more natural persons and under such terms as to be paid to any one of them . . . such account is deemed a joint account, and any part or all of the balance of such account . . . may be paid to any of such persons during the lifetime of all of them or to the survivor or any of the survivors of such person after the death of one or more of them.”
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.