Curtis v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Massaglia v. Commissioner (1961), Estate of Fletcher v. Jackson (1980)
5 federal appellate · 22 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 Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · McDonald v. Lambert · Womack v. Womack · Stiles v. Cain · Cardenas v. Ortiz
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Either husband or wife may enter into any engagement or transaction with the other, or with any other person respecting property, which either might, if unmarried; subject, in transactions between themselves, to the general'rules of common law which control the actions of persons occupying confidential relations with each other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“" 'It is the policy of the Law to prevent litigation between husband and wife, not to promote it as would be the case if the wife had to sue her husband to avoid limitations and laches.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aus v. Carper
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.