MacHado v. MacHado’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Continental Baking Co. v. Katz (1968), 14 Cal. 3d 604 - In Re Marriage of Mix (1975)
75 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 41 Cal. 2d 202 - Gudelj v. Gudelj · Estate of Neilson · 36 Cal. 2d 342 - Socol v. King · In Re Estate of Pepper · City of Vernon v. Superior Court
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he presumption created by the deed cannot be overcome by testimony of the hidden intentions of one of the parties, but only by evidence tending to prove a common understanding or an agreement that the character of the property was to be other than joint tenancy.”
3 later decisions 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.