Lake v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Simmons v. Fish (1912), Porter v. Porter (1948)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 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 Knapp v. . Smith · Ricketson v. Richardson · De Godey v. Godey · Meyer v. Kinzer · Peck v. Brummagim
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption, therefore, attending the possession of property by either, is that it belongs to the community ; exceptions to the rule must be proved. * * * This invariable presumption which attends the possession of property by either spouse during the existence of the community can only be overcome by clear and certain proof. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Laws v. Ross““If plaintiff luul filed her bill for divorce, prosecuted it to judgment in lier favor, without any showing by either party of the existence of community property,” she could thereafter have brought a second action to recover her share of such property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Garner
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.