Portillo v. Shappie’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Myers v. Olson (1984), Jurado v. Jurado (1995)
36 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 Michelson v. Michelson · Laughlin v. Laughlin · Campbell v. Campbell · McDonald v. Senn · Katson v. Katson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]ying the recovery in every case to the amount of money spent may produce results which, depending on extraneous circumstances, would be unfair either to the separate estate, or to the community, depending on whether the property increased or decreased in value. If the court would treat such expenditures as an equity investment of community funds, rather than a loan, the community would share in the fluctuations of the market, taking both the gains and the losses. In' view of the inflationary forces at work in the economy at present, tying the recovery to the amount of expenditure in each case seems grossly unfair to the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Hall“Community property consists of all property acquired by either or both spouses during marriage, which is not separate property, and its rents, issues and profits.”
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.