Lower v. Lower’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1973
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 Milholland v. Whalen · In Re the Final Accounting of Executors of Albrecht · Kennedy v. McMurray · In Re Estate of Harris · Lowery v. . Erskine
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.
““A joint interest is one owned by several persons in equal shares, by a title created by a single will or transfer, when expressly declared in the will or transfer to be a joint tenancy, or when granted or devised to executors or trustees as joint tenants. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hennigh v. Hennigh
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.