Sitomer v. Orlan’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2018
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Seabrook v. State · Strauss v. Strauss · Bailey v. Smith · 583 So. 2d 1033 - Wright v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Andrews v. Andrews
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A unique aspect of a tenancy by the entirety, is that each spouse is `seized of the whole or the entirety, and not a share, moiety, or divisible part'.... The important attribute separating a joint tenancy from tenancy by the entirety is a that in a tenancy by the entirety neither spouse may sever or forfeit any part of the estate without the assent of the other so as to defeat the right of the survivor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“much litigation involving bank accounts could be avoided if depositors and banks, when the account is first established, would `add language to the signature card stating clearly whether it is or is not intended to create an estate by the entirety.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A unique aspect of a tenancy by the entirety is that each spouse is 'seized of the whole or the entirety, and not of a share, moiety, or divisible part.'”
2 later decisions 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.