Akin v. Akin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2018
9 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 Leahy v. Timon · Wells v. Sansing · Martin v. Martin · Harmon v. Schmitz · Stewart v. Tolar & Daniel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He who attempts to establish title to property through a gift inter vivos, as against the estate of a decedent, takes upon himself a heavy burden, which he must support by evidence of clear and probative force, which clearly establishes every element of a valid gift. [Quoting Stewart v. Tolar & Daniel, 250 S.W. 274 (Tex.Civ. App.Beaumont 1923, no writ)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorman v. Arnold
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.