Malich v. Malich’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1985
22 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 Calhoun v. Leary
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The discretion conferred by this section is very broad, and it is only where it clearly appears that it has been abused that this court is justified in interfering. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In holding this property a community asset the trial court was perhaps governed to some extent by appellant’s statement that he borrowed the money to buy the lot and went in debt to erect the building, since property purchased on credit belongs to the community where it has not been acquired upon a pledge or mortgage of separate property, the consideration for it being merely the purchaser’s obligation or promise to pay. Heney v. Pesoli, 109 Cal. 53 , 41 Pac. 819 ; McKay on Community Property, § 208. A personal obligation or debt created by the husband during marriage is prima facie common, and necessarily property acquired in exchange for that obligation assumes a like character. Calhoun v. Leary, 6 Wash. 17 , 32 Pac. 1070 ; McKay on Community Property, § 209.”
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.