Long v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably Gaudio v. Gaudio (1990), Estate of Neilson (1962)
41 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 · Huber v. Huber · Elms v. Elms · 102 Cal. App. 775 - Provost v. Provost · Marvin v. Marvin
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not essential to show an express oral agreement, but the status of the property may be shown 'by the very nature of the transaction or appear from the surrounding circumstances.' (Marvin v. Marvin, 46 Cal.App.2d 551, 556 [ 116 P.2d 151 ].)”
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.