100 Wash. 2d 409 - Lyon v. Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Matter of Marriage of Schweitzer (1997), 123 Wash. 2d 160 - Higgins v. Stafford (1994)
29 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 Nelson v. Hotchkiss · State v. Coffey · 40 Colo. App. 227 - Harrison v. Albright · 95 Wash. 2d 124 - Norris v. Norris · 6 Wash. App. 464 - In Re Estate of Patton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is that neither spouse will have any separate property while both live'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that all property then owned by either spouse was converted to community property; (2) that all property later acquired would be community property; and (3) that upon death of one spouse all community property would vest in the survivor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A community property agreement as applied to after acquired property does not instantaneously convey initially separate property to the community but merely labels all after acquired property community immediately upon receipt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. See v. Hennigar
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.