Wells v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.2d 998 · 1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1969
4 federal appellate ·
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 30 Cal. App. 363 - Spreckels v. State of California · Starck v. Commissioner · Shwab v. Doyle · Rea v. Heiner · Meyer v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ contemplation of death ’ does not mean that general knowledge of all men that they must die, but that there must be a present apprehension, from some existing bodily or mental condition or impending peril, creating a reasonable fear that death is near at hand, and that such reasonable fear or apprehension must be the direct or animating cause, and the only cause of the transfer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the immediate and moving cause of the transfers was the carrying .out of a policy, long followed by decedent in dealing with his children, of making liberal gifts to them during his lifetime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctors pronounce me cured of bowel trouble, but I will always have asthma. I weigh 140 stripped.”
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.