Morgan v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1989
13 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 Tourette v. Tourette · Rundle v. Winters · Cosper v. the Valley Bank · Shreeve v. Greer · Lawson v. Ridgeway
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are thus presented with the problem of determining the rights of defendant Bruce under the assignment from her husband. The husband has exclusive control and is the agent of the community in the management of the community personalty, La Tourette v. La Tourette, 15 Ariz. 200 , 137 P.2d 426 ; and independent of the wishes of the wife (in the absence of fraud upon her) he can subject the community property to the payment of community debts. Cosper v. Valley Bank, 28 Ariz. 373 , 237 P. 175 ; First Nat. Bank of Mesa v. Reeves, 27 Ariz. 508 , 234 P. 556 . So far as her community property interests are concerned, she is bound by his transactions. Shreeve v. Greer, 65 Ariz. 35 , 173 P.2d 641 . In such transactions the husband for such purpose is not only agent for the community but he is agent for his wife. Atkins v. Dodds, Tex.Civ.App., 121 S.W.2d 1010 ; cf. Loveland v. Ingle, Tex.Civ.App., 230 S.W. 1054 . When the husband is the agent of the wife, she is charged with and has notice of all matters of which the husband has notice. 26 Am.Jur., Husband and Wife, Section 230, Page 840; 41 C.J.S. Husband and Wife § 512, p. 1091. * * *" 76 Ariz. at 125 , 259 P.2d at 560”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Uhlmann
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.