Lochinger v. Hanlon’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably Yohe v. Yohe (1976), Furjanick Estate (1953)
78 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 Gianni v. Russell Co., Inc. · Null's Estate · McConville v. Ingham · Mader v. Stemler · Chapple's Estate
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that a clear and unmistakable intention on the part of the donor to make a gift of his property is an essential requisite of a gift inter vivos: Lochinger v. Hanlon, 348 Pa. 29 , 33 A. 2d 1 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Balfour v. Seitz
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.