Malone v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. (1975), Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (1997)
43 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 Chippendale v. North Adams Savings Bank · Berry v. Kyes · Goldston v. Randolph · Conroy v. Fall River Herald News Publishing Co. · Commonwealth v. Hayes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Delivery of the bank book would not be essential since the contract takes the place of the delivery ordinarily required. . . . Furthermore, a transfer of this nature is not a gift of the deposit as such, but rather a gift of the interest therein created by the contract.”
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.