Edson v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.2d 398 · 1930
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably Coffey v. Commissioner (1944), Tyson v. Commissioner (1944)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 United States v. Merriam · Crocker v. Malley · Young v. . Young · 1 E.H. Smith 69 - In Re the Appraisal for Taxation of a Portion of the Estate of Seaman · 7 E.H. Smith 223 - In Re the Estate of Green
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * There must be a donor competent to make the gift, a clear and unmistakable intention on his part to make it, a donee capable of taking the gift, a conveyance, assignment, or transfer sufficient to vest the legal title in the donee, without power of revocation at the will of the donor, and a relinquishment of dominion and control of the subject matter of the gift by delivery to the donee.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After Mrs. Edson parted with this property, in 1919, she had neither the legal title, nor possession, nor control, nor the income, nor the proceeds * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolute transfer * * * taking effect immediately and fully executed by a delivery of the property by the donor, and an acceptance thereof by the donee.”
1 later decision 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.