Rust v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 22 Va. App. 557 - Theismann v. Theismann (1996), 26 Va. App. 195 - Sara Rahbaran v. Kamran Rahbaran (1997)
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 · Taylor v. Smith · Swan v. Swan's · Payne v. Tobacco Trading Corp. · Snidow v. First National Bank
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled that the law does not presume a gift and where a donee claims title to personal property by virtue of a gift inter vivos, the burden of proof rests upon him to show every fact and circumstance necessary to constitute a valid gift by clear and convincing evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Utsch v. Utsch · 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.