Richards v. Donner’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1947
14 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 Allore v. Jewell · Moore v. Moore
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems that the current of authority, English and American, is unvarying in its adherence to the same beneficent remedies ... and although judges have differed in the reasons given for the application of the rule, and the phases under which it has been applied are numerous and diverse, yet the conclusion reached is quite uniformly the same, whether the donee act in good or bad faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Brast“The right of plaintiff to recover did not depend on the question of the donor's sanity or soundness, nor upon the question of the donee's good faith or undue influence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Brast“while in a condition of great mental weakness ... without understanding the nature, effect, or consequences of his act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Brast
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.