Wheeland v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably In Re Marriage of Jafeman (1972), 39 Cal. 2d 66 - Paterson v. Comastri (1952)
44 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 Dunn v. Mullan · In Re Estate of Harris · 102 Cal. App. 775 - Provost v. Provost · 119 Cal. App. 155 - Spreng v. Spreng
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 reason for the difference in the rule between real and personal property is that a joint tenancy in real property cannot be created by oral agreement. (Civ. Code, § 683; Estate of Harris, supra [apparently referring to Harris I, supra, 169 Cal. at p. 726].”
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.