Matthews v. Hamburger’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1949
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trimble v. Trimble · Ballinger v. Ballinger · 4 Cal. 2d 690 - Britton v. Hammell · 6 Cal. App. 404 - Duncan v. Duncan
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The gift of community property by the husband without the consent of the wife may be set aside in its entirety by the wife during the lifetime of her husband. (Britton v. Hammett, 4 Cal.2d 690 [ 52 P.2d 221 ]), and after his death may be set (aside) as to one-half thereof (Trimble v. Trimble, 219 Cal. 340 [ 26 P.2d 477 ].) ” (See, also, Blethen v. Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. of Cal., 198 Cal. 91 [ 243 P. 431 ]; Britton v. Bryson, 216 Cal. 362 [ 14 P.2d 502 ]; Mundt v. Connecticut General Life Ins. Co., 35 Cal.App.2d 416 [ 95 P.2d 966 ]; Matthews v. Hamburger, 36 Cal.App.2d 182 [ 97 P.2d 465 ]; Bazzell v. Endriss, 41 Cal.App.2d 463 [ 107 P.2d 49 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lynn v. Herman
How this case has been treated — in progress
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