Packer v. Clemson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably Henes v. McGovern (1934), Donsavage Estate (1966)
5 federal appellate · 32 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 Reese v. Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance · Leitch v. Diamond National Bank · Sullivan v. Hess · Funston v. Twining · Michener v. Dale
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To make a valid gift inter vivos there must be a clear, satisfactory, and unmistakable intention of the giver to part with and surrender dominion over the subject of the gift with an intention to invest the donee with the right of disposition beyond recall, accompanied by an irrevocable delivery.”
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.