49 Cal. 2d 322 - Rozan v. Rozan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 877 - In Re Marriage of Fink (1979), Mears v. Mears (1960)
6 federal appellate · 77 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · Muller v. Dows · Massie v. Watts · Carpenter v. Strange
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * marital interests in movables acquired during coverture are governed by the law of the domicile at the time of their acquisition. * * * Moreover, the interests of the spouses in movables do not change even though the movables are taken into another state or are used to purchase land in another state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rozan v. Rozan“"It is significant that since plaintiff began this action, defendant divested himself of title to all but one parcel of his land in North Dakota * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rozan v. Rozan
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.