Kirchberg v. Feenstra’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The husband is the head and master of the partnership or community of gains; he administers its effects, disposes of the revenues which they produce, and may alienate them by an onerous title, without the consent and permission of his wife.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kirchberg v. Feenstra · 358 So. 2d 295 - Corpus Christi Parish Credit Union v. Martin

2. “Where the title to immovable property stands in the names of both the husband and wife, it may not be leased, mortgaged or sold by the husband without the wife’s written authority or consent where she has made a declaration by authentic act that her authority and consent are required for such lease, sale or mortgage and has filed such declaration in the mortgage and conveyance records of the parish in which the property is situated.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kirchberg v. Feenstra · 490 So. 2d 322 - Magee v. Amiss

3. “the bedrock of ( 430 F.Supp. 642, 644 (1977)), Louisiana's community property system,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. KIRCHBERG v. FEENSTRA Et Al. · 490 So. 2d 322 - Magee v. Amiss