Sousa v. Freitas’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin (1976), 44 Cal. App. 3d 758 - Atherley v. Atherley (1975)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 62 Cal. 2d 250 - Albers v. County of Los Angeles · Olivera v. Grace · 47 Cal. 2d 540 - Bennett v. Hibernia Bank · Caldwell v. Taylor · Vallera v. Vallera
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In effect, the innocent putative spouse was in partnership or a joint enterprise with her spouse, contributing her [earnings and services] to the common enterprise. Thus, their accumulated property was held in effect in tenancy-in-common in equal shares.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A judgment is properly challenged in equity when it is claimed to have been rendered without legal service of process or legal notice to a defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.