Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Matter of Estate of Heeter (1992), Jurado v. Jurado (1995)
26 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 38 Cal. App. 3d 93 - In Re Marriage of Lopez · Hertz v. Hertz · Albuquerque National Bank v. Albuquerque Ranch Estates, Inc. · Hurley v. Hurley · Michelson v. Michelson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to credit the community with any appreciation in the value of [the husband's separate] property”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele“no evidence as to the value of [the claimed] improvements”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele
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.