Smith v. Eshelman’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2012
21 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 Basket v. Hassell · Jones v. Deyer · Robertson v. Robertson · Barnes v. Barnes · Jones v. Weakley
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * if the title does not pass and was not intended to pass out of the donor until his death, the manual delivery of the property to another is not such delivery as is necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such a gift [ causa mortis ] . . . is revoked by law, if he [the donor] gets well of the sickness with which he was then afflicted.”
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.