Calvin v. Free’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1997
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.
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.
““It is settled law that where the donee has possession of the subject of the gift, the donor yet retaining some dominion over it, there is no need, if the donor shall desire to surrender such reserved rights first to retake the property into his possession, and then redeliver it to the donee with a full surrender; but it is sufficient, to complete a formerly incomplete gift, for the donor to mate final surrender of or direction concerning it, the donee all the while retaining possession. (14 A. & E. Encyc. of L. 1019.) Indeed, it seems that delivery in no case need be simultaneous with the gift in order to affect its validity, but such delivery may either precede or follow. (14 A. & E. Encyc. of L. 1026.)” (Calvin v. Free, 66 Kan. 466, 471 , 71 Pac. 823 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saxon v. Linscott
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.