Richardson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1992 · most notably Williams v. Peninsular Grocery Co. (1917), Meyer v. Meyer (1942)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Williams v. Forbes · McAnnulty v. McAnnulty · Fink v. Cox · Connelly v. Dunn
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.
““A gift is always revocable until it is executed, and a promissory note intended purely as a gift, is but a promise to make a gift in the future. The gift is not executed until the note is paid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shriver v. Danby
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.