Spreckels v. Spreckels’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1978 · most notably United States v. Robbins (1926), Warburton v. White (1900)
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 81 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.
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the husband makes a gift or voluntary transfer of community property, the transfer is good against him. He has no right of action to recover it back. The only person who-, in any case, has a right to complain is the wife, and she cannot maintain an action to revoke the gift until she has been injured by it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.