Sprick v. Sprick’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 70th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cain v. Bain · Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Benoit v. Wilson · Croucher v. Croucher · Stone v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) During marriage, each spouse has the sole management, control, and disposition of the community property that the spouse would have owned if single, including: (1) personal earnings; (2) revenue from separate property; (3) recoveries from personal injuries; and (4) the increase and mutations of, and the revenue from, all property subject to the spouse’s sole management, control, and disposition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Trammell
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.