Pomerantz v. Pomerantz’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 25 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has been decided frequently by this court that to make a gift inter vivos perfect and complete there must be an actual transfer of all right and dominion over it by the donor and acceptance by the donee, or by some competent person for him, and that the transfer of the gift should go into effect at once and completely. ... The law will not recognize a gift where there is reserved to the donor, either expressly or as a result of circumstances, a power of revocation or dominion over the subject of the gift. . . . The delivery must be actual or constructive, in either case it must divest the donor completely of any dominion or control over it and transfer such dominion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Snyder v. Stouffer

2. “The appellant’s own testimony that the gift was to be hers when she was twenty-one years of age is not evidence of a perfected gift at the time the deposits were made. The fact that the father undid what he had previously done is direct evidence of locus poenitentiae. The appellee had not done everything necessary to perfect and complete the gift at the time of appellant’s majority when appellant claims it became her absolute property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 955 F. Supp. 2d 569 - United States v. $119,030.00 in U.S. Currency