29 Cal. App. 2d 596 - Roy v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Huber v. Huber (1946), Cameron v. Cameron (1982)
28 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 In Re Estate of Cover · Brison v. Brison · Allen v. Allen · Reid v. Reid · 4 Cal. App. 604 - Glass v. Glass
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction of the court with respect to property in a divorce action is found in section 137 et seq. of the Civil Code. As a general rule and subject to certain exceptions not material here, the power of the court is limited to a disposition of the community property and a court is without power to pass upon a dispute as to separate property or the disposition of the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cameron v. Cameron
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.