Dorman v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions

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

1. “He who attempts to establish title to property through a gift inter vivos, as against the estate of a decedent, takes upon himself a heavy burden, which he must support by evidence of clear and probative force, which clearly establishes every element of a valid gift.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re: Vickie Lynn Marshall, Debtor. E. Pierce Marshall, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant/appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Vickie Lynn Marshall, Defendant-Counter-Claimant/appellee-Cross-Appellant · In Re: Vickie Lynn Marshall

2. “(1) [donor's] intent to make a gift; (2) [donor's] delivery of the property; and (3)[donee's] acceptance of the property.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re: Vickie Lynn Marshall, Debtor. E. Pierce Marshall, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant/appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Vickie Lynn Marshall, Defendant-Counter-Claimant/appellee-Cross-Appellant · In Re: Vickie Lynn Marshall

3. “A: [Ridgeway] said his health was getting worse and that I had been real good to him and I had taken real good care of him and he wanted me to have his money if something happened to him.... Q: And if there was any left when he passed away it was to go to you? A: Right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. $9,041,598.68 (Nine Million Forty One Thousand, Five Hundred Ninety Eight Dollars & Sixty Eight Cents)