Ballinger v. Ballinger’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin (1976), Bank of California v. Connolly (1973)
2 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 Trimble v. Trimble · Travelers Insurance v. Fancher · Alferitz v. Arrivillaga · Pabst v. Shearer · Lahaney v. Lahaney
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The gift of community property by the husband without the consent of the wife may be set aside in its entirety by the wife during the lifetime of her husband. (Britton v. Hammett, 4 Cal.2d 690 [ 52 P.2d 221 ]), and after his death may be set (aside) as to one-half thereof (Trimble v. Trimble, 219 Cal. 340 [ 26 P.2d 477 ].) ” (See, also, Blethen v. Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. of Cal., 198 Cal. 91 [ 243 P. 431 ]; Britton v. Bryson, 216 Cal. 362 [ 14 P.2d 502 ]; Mundt v. Connecticut General Life Ins. Co., 35 Cal.App.2d 416 [ 95 P.2d 966 ]; Matthews v. Hamburger, 36 Cal.App.2d 182 [ 97 P.2d 465 ]; Bazzell v. Endriss, 41 Cal.App.2d 463 [ 107 P.2d 49 ].)”
2 later decisions 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.