Crawford v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1986
7 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 Smith v. Ferry · Wasmund v. Wasmund · Columbia National Bank v. Embree
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lower court correctly applied the rule of Columbia Nat. Bank v. Embree, 2 Wash. 331 , 26 Pac. 257 , that, while the community property is immune from a separate debt during the lifetime of the spouse, it is open to attack after death, a rule recognized also in In re Hill’s Estate, 6 Wash. 285, 289 , 33 Pac. 585 . . . Our statute does not pass his half to the surviving spouse and so continue the solidity of the joint estate. It divides it. It makes it plainly separate then, so we hold it subject to separate debts. The legislatures in the many years that have passed since the Embree decision have been at no pains to alter the statute so as to escape this interpretation of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Butler
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.