Spencer v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably Estate of Kaimann v. Kaimann (1950), Sebree v. Rosen (1961)
39 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 Downs v. Horton · Tygard v. Falor · Bushman v. Barlow
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the general rule of law that the burden of proof rests on the party having the affirmative, and in the matter of gifts the law has placed the burden on the donee of the gift to develop facts showing a right to the property. Consequently, the burden of proof is on one claiming to be the donee of property to establish all fads essential to the validity of the gift." (Emphasis mine.)”
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.