Reasner v. Bohne’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1956
2 federal appellate · 18 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 In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Crawford · Stevenson v. Earl · Minor v. Rogers · Williamson v. Yager · Trubey v. Pease
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) . “A gift inter vivos of personal property may be defined as the voluntary act of transferring the right to and the possession of a chattel, whereby one renounces, and another acquires immediate right and title thereto. It cannot be made to take effect in the future.” (B) . “An agreement or promise to make a gift, being without consideration, is void. . . . There must be both an intention to give and a stripping of the donor of all dominion or control over the thing given. . . . The change of the title is and must be irrevocable. ...” (C) . “The delivery must be of possession, of the dominion and of the control of the property. The transfer must be so complete that, if the donor again assumes control over the property without the consent of the donee, he becomes liable as a trespasser. And so essential is delivery as a factor in the transaction that it has been said: ‘Intention cannot supply it; words cannot supply it; actions cannot supply it. It is an indispensable requisite, without which the gift fails, regardless of the consequences.’ ””
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.