Raphael v. Raphael’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Estate of Neilson (1962), 46 Cal. 2d 697 - Woods v. Security-First National Bank (1956)
67 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 Bristol v. Young · Huber v. Huber · 27 Cal. 2d 131 - Sears v. Rule · Kenney v. Kenney · Williams v. Babb
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... that all property then owned by them or subsequently acquired was to belong to them equally or, as respondent put it, "fifty-fifty.' " Similarly, in Estate of Raphael (1949), 91 Cal.App.2d 931, 936-937 [ 206 P.2d 391, 394 ], the husband's statement as related by his wife that "... everything he had was mine, and everything I had was his; that we were partners in everything, and everything was fifty-fifty”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The object of the oral agreement of transmutation was fully performed when the agreement was made for it immediately transmuted and converted the separate property of each spouse into community property, and nothing further remained to be done.”
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.