Mayberry v. Kathan’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 54 · 1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2017
3 federal appellate · 3 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 26 Cal. 2d 173 - Grimm v. Grimm · 41 Cal. 2d 770 - Thorp v. Randazzo · Thomson v. Thomson · Market Street Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission · Andrews v. Andrews
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each of the parties hereto renounces and releases all right, title and interest which he or she now has or ever could have in the property ... of the other whether now owned or hereafter at any time acquired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“general expressions or clauses in such agreements are not to be construed as including an assignment or renunciation of expectancies and that a beneficiary therefore retains his status under an insurance policy or under a will if it does not clearly appear from the agreement that in addition to the segregation of the property of the spouses it was intended to deprive either spouse of the right to take property under a will or an insurance contract of the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Brien v. Elder“specific reference to the death benefits”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.