Chamberlain v. Chamberlain’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2004
19 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 Wells v. Davis · White v. Poole · Brasch v. Reeves · Trebesch v. Trebesch · 51 Tex. Civ. App. 108 - Altgelt v. Escalera
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.
“"It cannot be gainsaid that, as a general rule, to establish a parol gift to real estate against the statute of frauds, the donee must prove the gift, that he took possession of the lands in reliance on it, and that on faith of the gift he had made valuable improvements thereon, with the acquiescence of the donor. * * *."”
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.