Maness v. Reese’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2014
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Scott v. Liebman · Turner v. Turner · Yarbrough v. Booher · Texas Sling Company v. Emanuel · Moore & Moore Drilling Company v. White
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 5.61. Rules of Marital Property Liability (a) A spouse’s separate property is not subject to liabilities of the other spouse unless both spouses are liable by other rules of law. (b) Unless both spouses are liable by other rules of law, the community property subject to a spouse’s sole management, control, and disposition is not subject to: * * * * * * * (2)any nontortious liabilities that the other spouse incurs during marriage. sfs * * * * * (d) All the community property is subject to tortious liability of either spouse incurred during marriage.”
1 later decision 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.