36 Cal. 2d 342 - Socol v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 41 Cal. 2d 202 - Gudelj v. Gudelj (1953), 27 Cal. 3d 808 - In Re Marriage of Lucas (1980)
3 federal appellate · 108 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 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · Siberell v. Siberell · Huber v. Huber · Viner v. Untrecht · 27 Cal. 2d 131 - Sears v. Rule
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it is well settled * * * that the form of the instrument under which a husband and wife hold title is not conclusive as to the status of the property and that property acquired under a joint tenancy deed may be shown to be actually community property or the separate property of one spouse according to the intention, understanding or agreement of the parties'.”
2 later decisions 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.