Castle v. Wightman’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Krueger v. Williams (1962), Murray v. Gadsden (1952)
6 federal appellate · 31 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 Birnbaum v. Pamoukis · Goldston v. Randolph · Battles v. Millbury Savings Bank · Splaine v. Morrissey · Davis v. Coburn
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Thus, in cases of joint deposit, while the contract of deposit is conclusive as between the parties and the bank, yet it may be shown that, for example, the execution of the contract of joint deposit was procured to be made by the depositor by the exercise of undue influence upon him, (case cited), or that it was intended as a matter of convenience, (case cited), or that it was void if intended by the depositor to hinder, defraud or delay his creditors, (case cited), or that the gift of the interest in the joint account was one upon a trust, (case cited) ; in brief, that the result of a present gift was not intended.” [ 88 U.S.App.D.C. 23 , 186 F.2d 762 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. Gadsden““A present gift, not of the shares themselves but of the interest created therein by the contract with the bank, would be effected without delivery of the pass book to the respondent Wightman, since the contract itself takes the place of the delivery ordinarily required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Brien v. Biegger
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.