Dean v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably S.V. v. R.V. (1996), Cockerham v. Cockerham (1975)
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 Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Titterington · Cooper v. Lee · Bass v. James · Smith v. Fly · 38 Tex. Civ. App. 139 - Boren v. Boren
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In the instant case, the property being paid for with appellant’s money, it became his separate property, unless he intended to give it to his wife, in which event it became her separate property. The fact that he had the deed made to his wife raises the presumption that he intended to make a gift of the property to her. But this presumption may be rebutted by competent evidence. The intent with which a party does an act is a fact known to him, and he is a competent witness to testify as to such fact. * * * ””
2 later decisions 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.