Harper v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1995
4 federal appellate · 16 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 Elsea v. Broome Furniture Co. · Heisch v. J. L. Bell & Co. · Gillett v. Chavez · Loveridge v. Loveridge
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . upon division of community property incident to divorce, separation or support suits, what was theretofore community property becomes henceforth the separate property of the respective spouses,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moucka v. Windham
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.