Adderholt v. Adderholt’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2008
16 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 Dickson v. Dickson · Jackson v. Jackson · Williams v. Thomas · Kimbrough v. Kimbrough · Vickers v. Vickers
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where one person pays the purchase price for property which is transferred at his direction to another who is the natural object of his bounty, parol evidence is admissible to show that the payor intended that the transferee should not have the beneficial interest in the property... The intention of the payor not to make a gift to the transferee may be shown not only by oral declarations of his intention, but also by the circumstances under which the transfer is made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ford v. Ford
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.