Holsberry v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2011
12 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 Speidel v. Henrici · Pusey v. Gardner · Whittaker v. Southwest Va. Improvement Co. · Trader v. Jarvis · Gallagher v. Gallagher
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence in case of a parol gift from father to child should be direct, positive, express, and unambiguous, and its terms clearly defined. Loose declarations of the father, without. explanation, are not sufficient evidence of a gift.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fouts v. Nance
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.