Greer v. Goesling’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Propstra v. United States (1982), Armer v. Armer (1970)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Tourette v. Tourette · Cosper v. the Valley Bank · Coe v. Winchester · Stukey v. Stephens · Pauley v. Hadlock
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the community status is dissolved by death, the community estate becomes ipso facto in effect two separate estates, except as to the rights of community creditors. The surviving spouse takes half of the estate, not as matter of descent but as a matter of right, subject, however, to the community debts. The remaining half goes to the heirs of the deceased spouse under the statute of descent and distribution, or to devisees and legatees by will, but is subject (a) to its ratable share of community debts, and (b) to any separate debts of the deceased.”
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.