Milton v. Milton’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2011
10 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 Shropshire v. Brown · Keen v. Georgia Trading & Development Co. · Holland v. Atkinson · Dooly v. Mayor of Fairmount · Coffey v. Cobb
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must definitely allege: (1) the promise to give, (2) a meritorious consideration, (3) possession in his own right by the donee, and (4) the making of valuable improvements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mankin v. Bryant · Milton v. Milton
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.