Yager v. Yager’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Weinberg v. Weinberg (1967), Shaw v. State of California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (1986)
10 federal appellate · 81 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 Brown v. Brown · Metropolis Trust & Savings Bank v. Barnet · Simonson v. Burr · Beaton v. Reid · Gray v. Brunold
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second wife is entitled to protection in the homestead of herself and her husband declared on their community property, and she cannot be turned out on an execution for unpaid alimony due the husband’s first wife for support of herself and a minor child. There may be children of a second marriage, in which event the homestead of the second marriage provides an abode for such children. The homestead is not only for the benefit of the judgment debtor, but to protect each and every member of his family, (case cited) * * * The homestead law gives the same right to the spouse of the second marriage that it gives to all others contracting marriage. * * * “We are mindful that a husband’s obligation to contribute to the support of his first wife and their child in accordance with the terms of the divorce decree is a solemn one, and that failure to perform this duty constitutes contempt and is a criminal offense. The law has provided special remedies to enforce this obligation. The dictates of good conscience do not require that, in addition, we interpolate into section 1241, Civil Code, a further exception that the homestead declared on community property of the second marriage should be subject to seizure for alimony due the first wife. * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Putz v. Putz“"... a judgment for periodic installments for an indefinite time is not a lien on property of the judgment debtor unless the judgment provides for a lien. ( Bird v. Murphy, 82 Cal. App. 691 [ 256 Pac. 258 ]; see note, 79 A.L.R. 252 .)" (pp. 216, 217.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brieger v. Brieger
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.