Fisk v. Flores’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1950
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.
“it is entirely consistent with the nature of a title by `donation' that the donor may be moved by reason of services rendered (in the past) by the donee to make the donation, and (the fact) that it is induced by such consideration does not take from the transaction the character of a `donation'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“donation inter vivos is an act by which one gives to another irrevocably and gratuitously some property of which he becomes the immediate owner”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is a contract whereby a person gratuitously dispossesses himself of something by transferring it to another, ...”
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.