Lefrooth v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Hansen v. Bear Film Co. (1946), Fewel & Dawes, Inc. v. Pratt (1941)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 74 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 Sheehan v. Sullivan · 40 Cal. App. 119 - Felsenthal v. Warring · Giselman v. Starr · Noble v. Learned · 47 Cal. App. 549 - Hynes v. White
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a cardinal rule that trusts in personalty may be created, declared, or admitted verbally and may be proved by parol evidence, but the authorities are uniform to the effect that such evidence must at all times be clear and unequivocal. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kellogg“There is likewise no question but that delivery may be symbolical such as delivery of a written instrument without physical delivery of the securities themselves so long as the instrument is one upon which delivery might be compelled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A gift is a transfer of personal property, made voluntarily, and without consideration.”
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.