Cork v. Bray’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]n the present [survivorship] case, the only issue is whether appellant met her burden by presenting clear and convincing evidence that [the depositor] did not intend to leave the account funds to the named survivor *** but instead opened the account solely for her convenience, intending the funds to remain in her estate at her death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wright v. Bloom

2. ““A joint and survivorship account belongs, during the lifetime of all parties, to the parties in proportion to the net contributions by each to the sums on deposit, unless there is clear and convincing evidence of a different intent.” (Emphasis added.) Accord Gillota v. Gillota (1983), 4 Ohio St.3d 222 , 4 OBR 576, 448 N.E.2d 802 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 125 Ohio App. 3d 210 - Ingram v. Hocking Valley Bank

3. “Joint and survivorship accounts create by contract both a survivorship interest and a present joint interest. The presumption of equal ownership of the funds on deposit may be rebutted by a showing of the `realities of ownership.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cowling v. Cowling, Unpublished Decision (5-26-2004)