Espinosa v. Petritis’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2002
8 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 Commerce Trust Co. v. Watts · Medler v. Henry · Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald · Pentecost v. Hudson · Burns v. Nolette
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.
““1. Property subject to gift. 2. A donor competent to make the gift. 3. A donation intent on the part of the donor, not induced by force or fraud. 4. Delivery to the donee. 5. Acceptance by a competent donee. 6. A present gift fully executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinney v. Ewing
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.