Levy v. Kalabich’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1966
14 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 Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · Arnett v. Reade · Terry v. Humphreys · Adams v. Blumenshine · Reade v. de Lea
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisprudence which Kearney found in New Mexico did not, so far as we are aware, contemplate the wife as a necessary or proper party to litigation involving the community property. The adoption of the common law in 1876 did not abolish the community system. When, in 1907 (chapter 37, § 16), we reduced the matter to Code, and prescribed ‘the husband has the management and control of the community property, with the like absolute power of disposition, other than testamentary, as he has of his separate estate, * * *’ we did not initiate that ‘management and control.’ We declared an historic condition. When we changed it in 1915, we disturbed it only with respect to the execution of deeds and mortgages. Fidel v. Venner, [ 35 N.M. 45 , 289 P. 803 ] supra. The point here made is that, as the wife was not originally a necessary party, and as legislation has not made her such, she is not now a necessary party. “The legal fact is that this ‘management and control’ of the husband has. embraced the right and duty to represent the community in its litigation. * * * ””
1 later decision 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.