Vercher v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 340 So. 2d 1309 - Broussard v. Broussard (1976), Northcott v. Livingood (1942)
29 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 Succession of Leroy · 22 La. Ann. 97 - Succession of Depouilly · Barriere F. W. C. v. Gladding's Curator
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The manual gift, that is, the giving of corporeal movable effects, accompanied by a real delivery, is not subject to any formality.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The fact that the certificate was made payable to the depositor, and, in the event of his death, to Mrs. Roy, does not entitle the latter to the certificate or its proceeds, on the happening of that event. To hold otherwise would be to give to the clause in favor of Mrs. Roy the effect of a donation mortis causa, when such donations can be made only by last will and testament. Civil Code, arts. 1750 and 1469; Barriere v. Gladding's Curator, 17 La. 144 . On the other hand, if the clause be viewed as an attempt to pay, after the death of the deceased, any obligation due Mrs. Roy, it is ineffective, for such obligation, at that time, must be established contradictorily with the succession, and paid, if it exists, by the succession."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The contention of Mrs. Roy that she is entitled to the certificate as a manual gift is not supported by the law. A certificate of deposit is not a corporeal movable, and therefore is not subject to donation by manual gift. It is merely a credit in favor of another for money deposited, which the one receiving the deposit binds himself to pay to the one making it or to his order. The certificate is the mere evidence that the deposit was made and of the obligation to pay, and an obligation to pay is not corporeal, but incorporeal.” (emphasis ours)”
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.