Hickman v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1967
3 federal appellate · 18 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 In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Bolin · Taylor v. Henry · Weitz v. Moulden · Denigan v. San Francisco Savings Union · 17 Cal. App. 162 - Drinkhouse v. German Savings & Loan Society
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Delivery and intent to give are absolute essentials to a valid gift inter vivos. . . “3. In order to constitute a valid gift inter vivos the donor must part with dominion over the property. If he reserves the right to recall the property, there is no valid gift.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs v. Barksdale“to establish a gift inter vivos, the evidence must be clear, explicit, and convincing in support of every element necessary to constitute a valid gift. * * * [ 175 Okla. at 265 , 52 P. 2d at 43 ]”
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.