Todd v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 38 Cal. App. 3d 93 - In Re Marriage of Lopez (1974), Stern v. Stern (1975)
61 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Estate of Hanley v. Hanley · Nunes v. Nunes · Franklin v. Franklin · 199 Cal. App. 2d 876 - Brawman v. Brawman · 259 Cal. App. 2d 896 - Millington v. Millington
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"At best, education is an intangible property right, the value of which, because of its character, cannot have a monetary value placed upon it for division between spouses."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"If a spouse's education preparing him for the practice of the law can be said to be `community property,' a proposition which is extremely doubtful even though the education is acquired with community moneys, it manifestly is of such character that a monetary value for division with the other spouse cannot be placed upon it."”
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.