Frankel v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably 31 Cal. 4th 657 - Mejia v. Reed (2003), 17 Cal. 3d 738 - In Re Marriage of Fonstein (1976)
8 federal appellate · 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 Johnston v. S.F. Savings Union · Packard v. Arellanes · Panaud v. Jones · Jones' Adm'r v. Jones · In re the Estate of Tompkins
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the authority of the court to assign all the community property to one of the spouses must be taken and construed as meaning the residue of such property after the payment of existing debts of the husband contracted on the faith of such property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wikes v. Smith
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.