Hartt v. Brimmer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The foregoing logic and reasoning bring us to this conclusion: In order to create in Wyoming a joint tenancy or tenancy by the entirety, in personal property, there must exist one of the following minimum requirements: “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 passage
   e.g. National Bank of Newcastle v. Wartell

2. “and its contents during [the cotenants'] lives shall be held and owned by them jointly and severally ... and upon the death of either, the Safe, its entire contents, and all right of access thereto shall belong exclusively to the survivor... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of Estate of Langley

3. “exclusive right of access thereto and possession of the contents thereof”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Estate of Finkelstein