Edmonds v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Wyatt v. State (1970), McKissick v. McKissick (1977)
2 district · 29 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 Basket v. Hassell · Whalen v. Milholland · Harris Banking Co. v. Miller · Denigan v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society · Crocker v. Hall
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To constitute a valid gift inter vivos, the intention to make it must be satisfactorily established and this intention must have been executed by actual, constructive or symbolical delivery of the thing proposed to be given without power of revocation. In other words, there is no gift until the intention of giving is fully consummated by the donor transferring all right and dominion over the thing given to the donee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Hobson“a written transfer, agreement, or instrument,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Natko v. State
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.