Vallera v. Vallera’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin (1976), 189 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Clevenger v. Clevenger (1961)
8 federal appellate · 129 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 54 Cal. App. 98 - MacChi v. La Rocca
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless it can be argued that a woman's services as cook, housekeeper, and homemaker are valueless, it would seem logical that if, when she contributes money to the purchase of property, her interest will be protected, then when she contributes her services in the home, her interest in property accumulated should be protected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the conclusion of the majority opinion that in order to sustain the judgment of the trial court there must be proof of a definite monetary contribution by the plaintiff in the form of separate property, or a contribution of her earnings as a waitress or from other employment outside the home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if an express agreement will be enforced, there is no legal or just reason why an implied agreement to share the property cannot be enforced.”
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.