Glover v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1996
3 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 In Re King's Estate · Wells v. Sansing · Bennett v. Jackson · O'Donnell v. Halladay · Weems v. First Nat. Bank of Winnsboro
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘. . . Our courts have uniformly held that in order to constitute a valid gift inter vivos or causa mortis, there must be a delivery of possession of the thing given; and the intention of the donor to vest in the donee unconditionally and immediately the ownership of the property delivered. Weems v. First National Bank of Winnsboro (Tex.Civ.App.) 234 S.W. 931 ; Wells v. Sansing, 151 Tex. 36 , 245 S.W.2d 964 ; O’Donnell v. Halladay (Tex.Civ.App.) 152 S.W.2d 847 (ref’d w. o. m.); 27 Tex.Jur.2d, p. 158, Gifts, Sec. 12.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Durham
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.