Strickland v. Wester’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1982 · most notably Hodge v. Ellis (1955), Vallone v. Vallone (1982)
7 federal appellate · 15 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 Arnold v. Leonard
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A careful consideration of the question has led to the conclusion that when such earnings (of the wife) are converted into other property, that property is subject to the payment of debts contracted by the husband the same as any other community property."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * were not subject to the payment of debts contracted by her husband, Article 4616, R.S., but they constituted a part of the community estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moss v. Gibbs
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.