Spencer v. Pettit’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1982
12 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 Choate v. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. · Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Conley · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Conley · Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. Runnels · Sparks v. Taylor
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Her property rights as a member of the second community could extend only to acquisitions by herself or her husband during that marriage. If for reasons of law or equity the husband’s purchases were in trust for his children by the former marriage, then he never acquired any separate property interest whatever, for which reason, of course, the wife as a member of the community never acquired any. The rights of the children and the duty and liability of the father in such a transaction would be precisely the same whether he had remarried or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tarver v. Tarver““In either case the burden would be upon the children to allege and prove the facts entitling them to recover, which in the latter case would impose upon them the duty of tracing their funds or property 'into the acquisition of the specific property sought to he recovered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tarver v. Tarver
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.