Taylor v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Quesenberry v. Funk (1962), Chappell v. Perkins (2003)
28 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 King v. Merryman · Swan v. Swan's · Payne v. Tobacco Trading Corp. · Snidow v. First National Bank · 14 Ill. App. 2d 116 - Rinehart v. Rinehart
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order for a gift inter vivos to be effective there must be an intention in praesenti on the part of the donor to make the gift and there must be such actual or constructive delivery as divests the donor of all dominion and control over the property and invests it in [the] donee. . . .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The gift must be of personal property; (2) possession of the property must be delivered at the time of the gift to the donee, or some other for him and the gift must be accepted by the donee; and (3) the title of the property must vest in the donee at the time of the gift.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Young“[T]he burden of proof rests upon [the donee] to show every fact and circumstance necessary to constitute a valid gift by clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knop v. Knop
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.