DeGrange v. DeGrange’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1985
8 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 Milholland v. Whalen · Taylor v. Henry · Bartlett · Worth v. . Case · Baltimore Retort & Fire Brick Co. v. Mali
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A promissory note given without consideration to a donee is but the voluntary promise of the donor to pay the money therein mentioned at a future date. The donor does not part with the dominion over the money which is the real subject of the attempted or rather the promised gift.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shriver v. Danby
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.