Dunham v. Armitage’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1976
7 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 Phillips v. Phillips
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is our conclusion that the instrument is testamentary in character and non-effective. In addition to the fact that the maker reserved possession and control in all particulars, the rents, issues, and profits, and the right to revoke at her pleasure, she expressly stated that `upon her death,' revocation not having been exercised, the real estate was to become the property of plaintiff in error. That retention of the power of revocation and `reservation * * postponing the vesting of title until the death of the grantor' are important, see Phillips v. Phillips, 30 Colo. 516 , 71 P. 363 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.