Knight v. Tripp’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 1961 · most notably Crocker v. Hall (1908), 47 Cal. App. 549 - Hynes v. White (1920)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 48 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 Cutting v. Gilman · Debinson v. Emmons · Keepers v. Fidelity Title & Deposit Co. · McGrath v. Reynolds · Yancey v. Field
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There must be both a purpose to give and the execution of this purpose. The purpose must be expressed, either orally or in writing, and it must be executed by the actual delivery to the donee of the thing given, or of the means of getting possession and enjoyment thereof. A written instrument may be available for designating the property intended to be given, as well as to show the intention of the donor; but by itself it no more establishes the gift than would the same words orally delivered by the donor. * * * It is the fact of delivery that converts the unexecuted and revocable purpose into an executed and complete gift””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Mrs. Cook was an invalid, 54 years of age, and it must be assumed that she had at best a hope that she would come safely out of the surgical operation that she was about to undergo and that her life, would be prolonged thereby. . . . Her disposition of her property was evidently made in contemplation of her death under the surgical operation but' it was not necessary for her to state that fact as one of its terms. If the circumstances under which it was made were such as to authorize such conclusion it will be treated the same as if it had been so stated by her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a transfer of personal property made voluntarily and without consideration”
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.