Williamson v. Yager’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 1950 · most notably In re Estate of Soulard (1897), Weil v. Commissioner (1936)
5 federal appellate · 40 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If one delivers possession of personal property to a trustee to hold as a gift for the donee, it is certainly a valid gift, and if he expressly says, or does acts amounting to the same thing, that he constitutes himself a trustee to hold the property for the donee, we perceive no reason why this should not be as válid and binding as a delivery of the property to a third person, to be held in trust for the donee.” (p. 286.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pohl v. Fulton
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.