Dawson v. Holbert’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1980
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The donor is permitted to dispose, for the advantage of any other person, of the enjoyment or usufruct of the immovable property given, but can not reserve it for himself.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The reservation of the usufruct in favor of the donee [donor] would produce the disadvantage of concealing from the eyes of the public the change of property which had taken place. He who wishes to enjoy during his life a piece of property which he destines for another, can give it by last will, and it is not easy to perceive the use of a donation inter vivos, with reserve of usufruct.”
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.