Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1994
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 Warner v. Florida Bank & Trust Co. · Adams v. Saunders · Adams v. Saunders · Fritz v. Fernandez
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.
“Further, “. . . Where a confidential relation existed between the donor and the donee at the time of the gift, it is generally considered to be presumptively void, and the burden of proof is on the donee to show the absolute fairness and validity of the gift, and that it is free from the taint of undue influence. . . .” Allen v Allen, 123 So.2d 355, 356 (Fla. 2d DCA 1960).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caplan v. Dreyfoos
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.