Britt v. Damson’s Empirical Analysis
334 F.2d 896 · 1964
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation (1994), 31 Cal. 4th 657 - Mejia v. Reed (2003)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 McKenzie v. Irving Trust Co. · Royal Indemnity Co. v. American Bond & Mortgage Co. · United States v. Merrill · Bortle v. Osborne
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n deciding whether the occurrence in question was a 'transfer' we are not concerned with what label [state law] has placed upon occurrences of this kind. We do however, look to [state law] to determine what was actually done....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only to settle property rights as between husband and wife, leaving unaffected the preexisting rights of third persons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““To the extent that the award of community property to Mrs. Damson may have exceeded half of the total value of the community property, there is a question whether, under all of the circumstances, Mr. Damson received fair consideration as a matter of law.13 As the parties have not presented argument on this question we leave it undecided at this time.””
2 later decisions 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.