Collins v. McCanless’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Campbell v. Prothro (1954), Estate of Lee v. Graber (1969)
3 federal appellate · 22 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the gift here had been a gift of all the bonds, under the circumstances we have detailed, the contention of the Commissioner that there was no completed gift would probably be good. Delivery is of course essential to complete a gift and retention by the donor of any dominion and control over the subject matter of the gift is ordinarily fatal to its validity. This court has so held many times. Among our later cases in which the earlier decisions are reviewed may be mentioned Deitzen v. American Trust & Banking Co., 175 Tenn. 49 , 131 S. W. (2d) 69 ; Chandler v. Roddy, 163 Tenn. 338 , 43 S. W. (2d) 397 ; Scott v. Union Planters’ Bank & Trust Co., 123 Tenn. 258 , 130 S. W. 757 . Many of these eases, however, recognize that there may be a constructive delivery.” 179 Tenn. at page 660 , 169 S. W. (2d) at page 851 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There can be no actual physical delivery of an undivided interest in a particular property. If a half of the thing is separated and delivered, there will be a gift of a divided part of the thing, not of an undivided interest in the whole. And many chattels, an animal for instance, would not he susceptible of division and manual delivery of an interest in a living animal would be impossible. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * While the court does ordinarily defer to a construction of the statute long given to it by those charged with its enforcement, if we are satisfied such construction is erroneous, we are impelled to depart from it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.