Litton v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1976
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 Ackerman v. Larner · Welch v. Forest Lumber Co. · Doucet v. Fontenot · Kirby v. Kirby
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A contract whereby one gives away his property, without reserving enough for his own subsistence, . . . is void ab initio, as contravening a prohibitory law. . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The donation in this case being void ab initio, the donee acquired no title, and the sale by the donee to her codefendant, Mrs. Mamie Wynn Nichols, conveyed no title.”
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.