Curry v. . Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 1971 · most notably In Re the Accounting of Van Alstyne (1913), Daniel v. Smith (1883)
35 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An absolute gift requires a renunciation by the donor and an acquisition by the donee of all interest in and title to the subject of the gift.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.