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Payne v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis

1861

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
9
states following
March 1973
most recently cited

1 district · 37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1973 · most notably United States v. Robbins (1926), 54 Cal. 2d 234 - Torregano v. Torregano (1960)

1 district · 37 state decisions

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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 Norris v. Harris · Beard v. Knox · Terry v. Foster

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ ‘The deceased,’ said the court, ‘had no authority to dispose of but one-half of the property; this he might do to whomsoever he pleased.’ That case was decided in July, 1855, and the decision has never been questioned. It has furnished a rule under which property of vast amount and value has been distributed. We have no doubt of its correctness, and we only affirm and follow it in holding, as we do in the present case, that the plaintiff took one undivided half of the common property in her own right by virtue of the community existing between herself and husband, and that the remaining half was subject to his testamentary disposition.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Robbins v. United States
  2. “which not infrequently arises from ... the peculiar circumstances under which the will is executed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 54 Cal. 2d 234 - Torregano v. Torregano

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.