Brotton v. Langert’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Cosper v. the Valley Bank (1925), Schramm v. Steele (1917)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Smith v. Sherwin
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Construing all the provisions of the chapter together, we cannot escape the conclusion that the object of the law was to protect (so far as is consistent with the transaction of ordinary business as we before observed) one spouse from the misdeeds, improvidence or mismanagement of the other concerning property which is the product of their joint labors. It is in the nature of an exemption and, as has been well said, ‘ exemption laws are upheld upon principles of justice and humanity.’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell v. Pugh““The husband has the management and control of the community real property, but he shall not sell, convey, or encumber the community real estate, unless the wife join with him in executing the deed or other instrument of conveyance by which the real estate is sold, conveyed, or encumbered, ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a judgment which is not obtained for a community debt becomes a lien upon community real property without any special proviso, why make a special proviso for a judgment which is obtained for a community debt?”
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.