150 W. Va. 513 - Grace v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2004
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 Basket v. Hassell · 150 W. Va. 96 - Lane v. Williams · Seabright v. Seabright · Dickeschied v. Exchange Bank · Hudson v. Iguano Land & Mining Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Only personal property may be transferred by such gift. The donor must make the gift in contemplation of death, either at his last illness or while he is in other imminent peril; he must give up all dominion and control over the subject of the gift so that it may belong to the donee presently, as his own property; the donor must make an actual delivery of the thing given or a delivery of the means of getting immediate possession and enjoyment of the gift.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If I should die ... you transfer both savings and checking accounts to my sister,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.