Sharpe v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably First National Bank v. Energy Fuels Corp. (1980), Sawada v. Endo (1977)
1 federal appellate · 71 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 Chandler v. Cheney · Hall v. Stephens · Crosby v. Jeroloman · Davis v. Clark · Beatty v. Coble
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By a fiction of the common law, the husband and wife were regarded as one person, the legal existence of the wife being suspended during coverture, or at least incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband. 1 Blackstone’s Comm. . Upon this legal fiction of the unity of husband and wife rests all the distinctions and peculiarities which distinguish the estate by entireties from other joint estates. ‘It is the legal notion of unity of two persons, who are husband and wife, which gives occasion to the construction of an entirety of interest on their tenancy.’ 1 Preston, Estates . An estate by entireties is created when a husband and wife take an estate to themselves jointly by grant or devise, or by limitation of a use made to them during coverture. 1 Preston, Estates . On account of the unity of persons of husband and wife by marriage, they take the estate as one person . ..” (our emphasis)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ... an estate by entireties is subject to sale on execution issued on a judgment rendered against both the husband and the wife . . . By their joint deed they can dispose of their estate; and by their joint mortgage they can incumber it. Jointly, they have the complete ownership of the estate with full power to control and dispose of it at will, and it is a general rule that property so owned is subject to sale on execution to satisfy a judgment against the owner.””
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.