Foster v. Hackworth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1981
11 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 Cheeves v. Anders, Administrator · Cauble v. Beaver-Electra Refining Co. · Gohlman, Lester & Co. v. Whittle · Wadkins v. Watson · Hudson v. Compere Bros.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here money is borrowed after marriage it is presumed to be borrowed for the benefit of the community, in absence of a contrary showing; ... and the indebtedness is regarded as a community debt, even though it is secured by a pledge of the separate property of one spouse or the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson
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.