Stigletts v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1984 · most notably Smith v. General Motors Corp. (1955), Mercer v. Mercer (1949)
7 federal appellate · 22 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 Holmes v. Kilgore · Garner v. Bemis · Madison v. Robinson · Thomas v. Tilley · Szabo v. Speckman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proof is on one claiming to be the donee of property to establish all facts essential to the validity of the gift.”
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.