Tucker v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably 20 Wash. 2d 740 - Tucker v. Brown (1944), 17 Wash. App. 464 - Doty v. Anderson (1977)
27 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 Millett v. Temple · Farrell v. Mentzer · Knowles v. Slocum · Jackson v. Lamar · Kempski v. Hisgen
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.
““In order to constitute a gift of personal property, it is necessary (a) that there be an intention on the part of the donor to personally give; (b) a subject matter capable of passing by delivery; (c) an actual delivery at the time; (d) the delivery must divest the donor of present dominion and control over the property absolutely and irrevocably and confer upon the donee the dominion and control; and (e) a gift will not be presumed, but he who asserts title by this means must prove it by evidence which is ‘clear, convincing, strong, and satisfactory.’ [Citing cases.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... where a person has, or accepts, [property] with the express or implied understanding that he is not to hold it as his own absolute property, but to hold and apply it for certain specified purposes, an express trust exists. A person occupying a fiduciary relation, who has property deposited with him on the strength of such relation, is to be dealt with as a trustee of an express trust.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A gift of a chose in action, not having such tangible body as to be chattel property, “. . . including a gift of a simple debt, cannot be made effective without a deed, the execution of an adequate release or transfer in writing, or the performance of some other act placing the debt beyond the legal control of the creditor.””
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.