Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Weinberg v. Weinberg (1967), 42 Cal. 2d 36 - Dexter v. Dexter (1954)
38 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 17 Cal. 2d 679 - Grolemund v. Cafferata · 4 Cal. 2d 356 - McClure v. McClure · 76 Cal. App. 2d 119 - Wilson v. Wilson · Lamborn v. Lamborn · Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. Mantz
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it unnecessary to undertake to enunciate a strict legal definition of ‘community debts’; the question here, as we view it, seems to be more one of fact, or construction of language, than one of law. The words appear to have been used in this proceeding, not as ‘words of art,’ but simply in general reference to the type of obligations which the trial court, when it rendered the interlocutory decree, found that defendant should pay in order to accomplish a just division of the community property 199 P.2d at 674 .”
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.