Wittman v. Pickens’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1971
5 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 Arnett v. Berg
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is admitted that the note and mortgage were not returned to appellant until after the death of Wittman. “From these allegations and admissions, the conclusion is irresistible that actual delivery of the note and mortgage was not made by Wittman to Fisher. “The death of the principal terminated the agent’s authority; hence the return of the note and mortgage, by Fisher, to appellant, after the death of Wittman, was without effect as against the administrator of Wittman’s estate (appellee).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunnell v. Iverson““The weakness of this contention lies in the fact that it does not affirmatively appear from this record that delivery was made by the donor to a third person, who was to act as trustee for the donee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunnell v. Iverson
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.