Hardy v. Carrington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The essentials of a completed gift inter vivos are: (1) A clear and unmistakable intention to make the gift; and (2) the consummation of such intention by those acts which the law requires to divest the donor and invest the donee with the right of property. Thomas v. Thomas, 70 Col. 29 , 197 Pac. 243 ; Wittman v. Pickens, 33 Colo. 484 , 81 Pac. 299 , 28 C.J., p. 630, §21. In the case before us the plaintiff clearly and unmistakably expressed his desire and intention to give to the fair board an automobile which he had won at what some of the witnesses call a lottery. The intention was manifested to the secretary of the board and the latter was authorized by the plaintiff to communicate the same to the president and he did so, and the president at once conferred with other members of the board, all of whom manifested an acceptance of the gift, which was communicated at once to the defendant Carrington, who had the automobile in his possession, whereupon Carrington turned back to the fair board the check which had been given to him as the purchase price of the automobile. All of these acts were done before the plaintiff, as above stated, changed his mind and sought to rescind his gift and get possession of the car.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bunnell v. Iverson