Cox v. Caldwell.’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1973
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 Houghton v. Hall · Stauffer, Macready & Co. v. Morgan · Baker v. Baker · Gogreve v. Dehon · Schwab v. Hava
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.
“All property acquired by either spouse during the existence of the marriage presumably falls into and becomes an asset of the community of acquets and gains between them, if such exists. Art. 2402 of the Civil Code. Murff v. Neal et al., La. App., 162 So. 245 ; Schwab v. Hava et ux., 154 La. 922 , 98 So. 420 ; Houghton v. Hall et al, 177 La. 237 , 148 So. 37 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The burden of overcoming the above referred to presumption rests upon the person alleging the separate and/or paraphernal character of the particular property. Schwab v. Hava et ux., supra; Houghton v. Hall, et al., supra; Cosgrove v. His Creditors, 41 La.Ann. 274 , 6 So. 585 ; Huntington Adm'r v. Legros, 18 La.Ann. 126 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`This presumption is not overcome by the declaration of the spouses in a deed to the wife that the latter is purchasing with her own separate and paraphernal funds, under her separate administration. Shaw v. Hill, 20 La.Ann. 531 , 96 Am.Dec. 420; Gogreve v. Dehon, 41 La.Ann. 244 , 6 So. 31 .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.