Straus v. Shamblin’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1974
5 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 Boswell v. Pannell · Cook v. Smith · Richardson v. Levi · Threadgill v. Bickerstaff · Howard v. North
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The community property of the husband and wife shall not be liable for debts or damages resulting from contracts of the wife except for necessaries furnished herself and children, unless the husband joins in the execution of the contract; * * *." (Emphasis ours).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flores v. Bailey“". . . (T)he sheriff could convey no other property except such as he had sold at execution sale, and he could sell no other except such as he had been ordered to sell." (Emphasis added)”
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.