Thomas v. Tilley’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Ryan v. Ryan (1958), De Mouy v. Jepson (1951)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Sewall v. Glidden · Hunley v. Hunley · Vermont & Canada Railroad v. Vermont Central Railroad · Blakey v. Heirs of Blakey · Sims v. Sims
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Realizing how easy it is, after the death of the supposed donor, to gather up detached expressions, particularly in the presence of interested witnesses, we recognize the wisdom of the rule that strict proof should be made of all the ingredients of a perfected gift before the same can be established.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. McGee
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.