Goetz v. Bland’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2008
14 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 Brown's Estate · Sorensen v. Pagenkopf · Morris v. Firemen's Insurance · Hammond Motor Co. v. Warren · Seely v. Carlson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order that a gift inter vivos be valid, there must be an intention of the donor to transfer title to the property to the donee, a delivery by the donor to the donee, and an acceptance by the donee, and if anything remains to be done, the transaction constitutes only an executory agreement to give and title does not pass.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
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.