13 Cal. 2d 596 - Gordon v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably In Re Thomas James Dyer (2003), 6 Cal. 3d 94 - Redke v. Silvertrust (1971)
6 federal appellate · 13 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 Booth v. Oakland Bank of Savings · Tennant v. John Tennant Memorial Home · Knight v. Tripp · Beebe v. Coffin · 17 Cal. App. 162 - Drinkhouse v. German Savings & Loan Society
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there has been unequivocal proof of a deliberate and well-considered donative intent on the part of the donor, many courts have been inclined to overlook the technical requirements and to hold that a “constructive” or “symbolic” delivery is sufficient to vest title in the donee. However, where this is allowed the evidence must clearly show an intention to part presently with some substantial attribute of ownership. [Gordon v. Barr, 13 Cal. 2d 596, 601 , 91 P. 2d 101, 104 (Sup. Ct. Cal. 1939) ] 2”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the express understanding and agreement that [the cousin] should manage and control the funds invested in said mortgages, subject to the direction of the [original owner assignor] during her lifetime, paying the income therefrom to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the said funds, property and indebtedness, and all the proceeds thereof should be an remain the property”
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.