Gastauer v. Gastauer’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1970
2 district · 7 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 Bianchi v. Del Valle · Jones v. Jones · R. M. Walmsley & Co. v. Theus · Nissen v. Farquhar · Brown v. Smythe
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(3). The right of a wife to demand a separation of property is not dependent upon the actual possession by her of separate property, or upon the existence of any claim against her husband for the reimbursement of paraphernal funds. It is enough that she show that the habits and circumstances of her husband render such separation necessary in order to enable her to preserve for her family the earning that she may derive from her separate industry and talent; and that proof plaintiff has made. Davock v. Darcy, 6 Rob. [La.] 342; Penn v. Crockett, 7 La. Ann. 343 ; Wolf & Clark v. Lowry, 10 La. Ann. 272 ; Webb v. Bell, 24 La. Ann. 75 ; Chaffe & Sons v. Watts, 37 La. Ann. 324 ; Brown & Learned v. Smythe, 40 La. Ann. 25 , 4 So. 300 ; Walmsley & Co. in Liq., 107 La. 433 , 31 So. 869 ; Jones v. Jones, 119 La. 687 , 44 So. 429 . “It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment appealed from is annulled, avoided, and reversed, and that there now be judgment in favor of plaintiff and against George Gastauer, her husband, decreeing a separation of property between them. It is further decreed that, as between said litigants and the Union Homestead Association and as between said litigants inter sese, all the rights apparently accruing to the plaintiff, Sophie Gastauer, otherwise Mrs. George Gastauer, under the resolution of said association of February 18, 1902, * * * and by reason of her holdings of the stock of said association, be decreed to have been vested in the com”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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