Belkin v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Williams v. Williams (1959), Burlingham v. Burlingham (1963)
5 federal appellate · 29 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 68 Tex. Crim. 295 - Burford v. State · Kahn v. Kahn · Soell v. Hadden · Larrabee v. Porter · Riley v. Wilson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary for us to here determine whether the deed from Ray Marks and husband, Harry Marks, to H. H. Ray and the deed from H. H. Ray and wife to Harry Marks and wife, Ray Marks, did or could have the effect of making the property the community property of Harry Marks and wife in a technical sense, for if they could not have that effect they at least operated to convey the property to Marks and wife jointly so that each owned an undivided one-half interest therein. Riley v. Wilson, 86 Tex. 240 , 24 S.W. 394 ; Kellett v. Trice, 95 Tex. 160 , 66 S.W. 51 ; Taylor v. Hollingsworth, 142 Tex. 158 , 176 S.W.2d 733 . In this particular instance the property passed to the devisees named in the will in the same manner, whether it was the community property of the husband and wife or was merely owned jointly by them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kitchens v. Kitchens““It goes without saying that by [a] deed to his wife, Harry Marks constituted this property the separate estate of his wife. 23 Tex.Jur., p. 157, § 128.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.