Matthews v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2018
9 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 Beaver v. . Beaver · Swan v. Swan's
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To make a gift of personal property, inter vivos, valid, it must appear that it was the intention of the donor to part with the title and vest it in the donee, and that there was a delivery of the property, actual or constructive, which divested the donor and invested the donee with all control over the property. Mahon v. Johnston, 7 Leigh (34 Va.) 317, 319; 28 C. J. 628; Swan v. Swan, 136 Va. 496 , 117 S. E. 858 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Liggan
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.