Tripp v. McCurdy’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2003
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.
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.
““Whether or not delivery to a third person is absolute and irrevocable or qualified and revocable depends in the first instance upon the intention of the grantor, and that is to be gleaned from his words and acts at the time, the attendant circumstances and from his subsequent conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Hill
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.