Ames v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1981
5 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 Williams v. Williams
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he husband is the manager of the community and, absent fraud against the rights, of the wife, he can, as such manager, layout the community funds as he sees fit. As a matter of law it was no fraud against his wife for appellant to pay the taxes in question with community funds. Indeed it seldom happens that the husband comes into possession of separate funds. The income from his separate property is community. Since, under the facts of this case, the husband as manager of the community estate, had the absolute right to pay the taxes in question with community funds, he did not become answerable, upon dissolution of the marital status, to his former wife in an amount equal to half of the sum of the taxes so paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snider v. Snider
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.