Washington v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1986
17 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 Giglio v. Giglio · Butler v. Bolinger · Rhodes v. Rhodes · Verrier v. Loris · Tugwell v. Tugwell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question presented herein is whether, after divorce, a wife is a necessary party to a suit to revive a judgment against the community and to an execution sale of community property under the revival judgment. For the reasons which follow, our conclusion is that the wife is not a necessary party to the revival suit or the execution proceedings. “An analysis of the jurisprudence establishing the rule that the creditor of a community dissolved by the wife’s death may execute on community property by proceeding against the husband alone shows that the reason for the rule is that the husband is personally liable for community debts while the heirs of the wife are only contingently liable and may relieve themselves from personal liability by renouncing her succession or accepting it with benefit of inventory. Verrier v. Loris, 48 La.Ann. 717 , 19 So. 677 , and Landreaux v. Louque, 43 La.Ann. 234 , 9 So. 32 . This same situation obtains in the case of a community dissolved by divorce: the husband is personally liable for community debts, while the wife may renounce the community or accept it under benefit of inventory. Therefore, there is the same reason for the existence of a ‘fictitious community’ after a divorce insofar as a proceeding by a community creditor is concerned. This view is not in conflict with the cases cited in tlhe opinion of the Court of Appeal herein ( 28 So.2d 509 ) to the effect that after divorce the wife, as a joint owner, may sue her husband for a parti”
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.