Mazzenga v. Rosso’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably Eatwell v. Beck (1953), 166 Cal. App. 2d 59 - Kunakoff v. Woods (1958)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Estate of Krone · 79 Cal. App. 560 - Marsh v. Van Allen Marsh · Brigham v. Hughson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the logic appears irrefutable that if according to statute [§ 201 7 ] the survivor of a valid, ceremonial marriage shall be entitled to take all of the community estate upon its dissolution, then by parity of reasoning why should not the [putative] wife inherit the entire estate of a putative union upon the death of her husband intestate? Clearly, she does inherit all.”
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.