13 Ill. 2d 420 - Pocius v. Fleck’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 204 Ill. App. 3d 235 - Pavilon v. Kaferly (1990), Renovitch v. Kaufman (1990)
1 federal appellate · 62 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 Linder v. Potier · Heiby v. Reinberg · 5 Ill. App. 2d 130 - Shelby County State Bank of Shelbyville v. Aichele · Geer v. Goudy · Hanlon v. Hayes
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden of proof rests upon the donee to prove all the facts essential to a valid gift. To constitute a valid gift, it is essential to prove the delivery of the property by the donor to the donee, with the intent to pass the title to the donee absolutely and irrevocably, and the donor must relinquish all present and future dominion and power over the subject matter of the gift. [Citations omitted]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is the established law that where gifts are first asserted after the death of the donor, they are regarded with suspicion by the courts and the rule requiring gifts to be established by clear and convincing evidence is especially applicable in such cases, particularly where a confidential relationship existed between the parties."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[The real estate agent] is thus presumed to be the agent of the donor. The deeds and other instruments were incomplete at the date of the death of the alleged donor, hence revocable, and were revoked by said death as undelivered and incomplete." Pocius, 13 Ill.2d at 430 , 150 N.E.2d 106 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barasch v. Barasch
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.