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complete inter vivos transfer

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Definitions from Case Law

From 278 U.S. 339 - Reinecke v. Northern Trust Co. · 1929Most cited · 940 citing opinions

Since the power to revoke or alter was dependent on the consent of the one entitled to the beneficial, and consequently adverse, interest, the trust, for all practical purposes, had passed as completely from any control by decedent which might inure to his own benefit as if the gift had been absolute.

How often courts cite the case defining “complete inter vivos transfer”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “complete inter vivos transfer” — 940 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.