Choman v. Epperley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2021
16 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 Fuchs Murane v. Goe · Naab v. Smith · In Re Estate of Hutchison · Oroz v. Board of County Com'rs of Carbon County · Houghton v. Brantingham
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The common law of England as modified by judicial decisions, so far as the same is of a general nature and not inapplicable, and all declaratory or remedial acts or statutes made in aid of, or to supply the defects of the common law prior to the fourth year of James the First (excepting the second section of the sixth chapter of forty-third Elizabeth, the eighth chapter of thirteenth Elizabeth and ninth chapter of thirty-seventh Henry Eighth) and which are of a general nature and not local to England, are the rule of decision in this state when not inconsistent with the laws thereof, and are considered as of full force until repealed by legislative authority.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““[Ujnless an instrument states that survivorship shall exist among joint payees there is no survivorship and the interest of each passes, on death, as tenancy in common. No right of survivor-ship is stated on the notes in issue and, although the payees are husband and wife, this is not indicated on the notes. Since nothing appears in the instruments evidencing, or which could be construed as evidencing, an intention to create a survivorship, we must find that appellant and her husband held the notes as tenants in common.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Anselmi““1. Each of the four unities of interest, time, title, and possession must be present, with the added unity of person for a tenancy by the entirety; or “2. In the absence of one or more of the first four unities, it must be evident from the language of the instrument itself that the parties thereto intended to create a right of survivorship.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oatts v. Jorgenson
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.