Decuers v. Bourdet’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1996
14 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 Johnson v. Levy · Succession of Waldo
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although these commentaries deal generally with gifts made in the marriage contract, the underlying theory which pervades the whole subject is that'the consummation of the marriage is the end sought, and therefore the ultimate purpose of all such gifts. Necessarily the failure of the essential condition on which the gift is made makes the gift nullable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The contract is also considered as being without cause when the consideration for making it was something which, in the contemplation of the parties, was thereafter expected to exist or take place, and which did not take place or exist. A gift in consideration of a future marriage is void by this rule, if the marriage do not take place.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Every donation made in favor of marriage, falls, if the marriage does not take place.””
1 later decision 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.