Beach v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2024
9 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 Preston v. Dupont · Lagae v. Lackner · Dodd v. McGee · Whitby v. Overton · Keith v. El-Kareh
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statute is not presumed to alter the common law except to the extent that such statute expressly provides”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n the present case, unlike Carneal, the life tenant seeks to establish a tenancy in common between the life tenant and the remaindermen in the life tenant’s undivided moiety. . . . Here, the remaindermen have no right to hold and occupy the land in question because the surviving life tenant has not died. In Carneal, both the life tenant and the fee simple owners of the other undivided moiety had the right to hold and occupy the land because there existed two separate undivided moieties in the property and the title to each was held by different owners. In order for a life tenant to be a tenant in common with other owners of the property there must be coequal rights of occupancy, and such rights are not present in this case. Because this life tenant is not a tenant in common with the remaindermen, it follows that he has no right to compel partition of the property against the owners of the remainder interest ... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maitland v. Allen“[a]ctions for the division and partition of real or personal property or interest therein may be maintained by any person having an interest in such property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.