Schenker v. Moodhe’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Young v. Cockman (1943), Moodhe v. Schenker (1939)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Milholland v. Whalen · Whalen v. Milholland · Estate of Smith · Taylor v. Henry · Wadd v. . Hazelton
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.
“To be valid, a constructive delivery must not only be accompanied by words sufficient to show a donative intent, but must be of such a character as to completely divest the donor of dominion and control over the donation and to place it “wholly under the donee’s power.””
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.