Stanger v. Epler’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Pavlicic v. Vogtsberger (1957), Larendon Estate (1970)
31 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. · Furjanick Estate · Grubb v. Rockey · Walker v. Saricks · Lochinger v. Hanlon
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A gift to a person to whom the donor is engaged to be married, made in contemplation of marriage, although absolute in form, is conditional; and upon breach of the marriage engagement by the donee, the property may be recovered by the donor. But if the gift is made simply for the purpose of introducing the donor to the donee’s acquaintance and to gain her favor, the property is not recoverable, although marriage does not ensue. So where a Christmas present is made by a man to his fiancée it becomes her property and the subsequent breaking of the engagement does not entitle him to recover it back.” 98 Pa. Super. at 538 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.