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← 144 ILL 611 - Telford v. Patton

Telford v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis

1892

Citation profile

78
cited by 78 later decisions
8
states following
February 1953
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 64 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 1953 · most notably Rosenthal v. People (1904), Erwin v. Felter (1918)

6 federal appellate · 64 state decisions

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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 Beaver v. . Beaver · Basket v. Hassell · Martin v. . Funk · Young v. . Young · Ridden v. . Thrall

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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ It is essential to a donation inter vivos that the gift be absolute and irrevocable; that the giver part with all present and future dominion over the property given; that the gift go into effect at once and not at some future time; that there be a delivery of the thing given to the donee; that there be such a change of possession as to put it out of the power of the giver to repossess himself of the thing given.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Devine v. Stepanek · Hagemann v. Hagemann
  2. ““ 1. The gift must be with a view to the donor’s death; (2) it must have been made to take effect only in the event of the donor’s death by his existing disorder; (3) there must be an actual delivery of the subject of the donation.” Telford v. Patton, 144 Ill. 611, 619 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hagemann v. Hagemann

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.