Watkins v. MacPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1983
10 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 Henes v. McGovern · Yeager's Estate · Brown's Estate · Gongaware's Estate · Philadelphia Co. v. Pittsburgh
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Yeager’s Est. 273 Pa. 359, 362 , 117 A. 67 , this Court stated: ‘The quality and quantity of proof required to meet this obligation varies greatly, depending upon the circumstances of the particular case. Where the parties are strangers, the presumption against voluntary transfers is greater than in transactions between those holding more intimate relations. If the gift is from husband to wife (Crosetti’s Est., 211 Pa. 490 ), or parent to child (Langdon v. Allen, 1 W.N.C. 395 ), the action of the donor is viewed as but natural, and less evidence is required to establish the intention . .”
2 later decisions 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.