Arthur v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1966
5 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 Marshall v. Coleman · Kimball v. Leland · Nelson v. Nelson · Harness v. Harness · Pomeroy v. Pomeroy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It clearly contemplates that a delivery of property by one to another, the latter having claims, upon the former’s bounty, is not to be deemed an advancement unless it is given that character at the time of such delivery, either by a declaration in the writing making the bestowal, or by an acknowledgment in writing at that time by the recipient of the bounty, or by an expression of the donor in respect to the matter in charging the property to the person receiving the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Liesse v. Fontaine““All gifts and grants shall be deemed to have been made in advancement if they are expressed in the gift or grant to be so made or if charged in writing by the intestate as an advancement or acknowledged in writing as such by the child or other descendant.” Sec. 3959, Stats.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Liesse v. Fontaine
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.