Burlingham v. Burlingham’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Swink v. Fingado (1993), Allen v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1975)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · 122 Cal. App. 2d 116 - Thomasset v. Thomasset · Laughlin v. Laughlin · Campbell v. Campbell · McDonald v. Lambert
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Property acquired in community property states takes its status as community or separate property at the very time it is acquired, and is fixed by the manner of its acquisition.’ ”) (quoting Laughlin v. Laughlin, 49 N.M. 20, 37 , 155 P.2d 1010, 1020 (1944) (citations omitted)). See also, Burlingham v. Burlingham, 72 N.M, 433, 443, 384 P.2d 699, 707 (1963) (observing that,”
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.