Chance v. Kitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2018
21 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 28 Cal. 3d 366 - In Re Marriage of Moore · Portillo v. Shappie · Williams v. Sinclair Refining Co. · 20 Ariz. App. 313 - Hanrahan v. Sims · Lanigir v. Arden
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The value of real property is generally represented by the owner’s equity in it. The equity value does not include finance charges or other expenses incurred to maintain the investment. Therefore, taxes, insurance, interest and garbage and sewer expenditures are not to be credited to Defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. Block“when determining a community interest in community funds expended on behalf of property purchased by a spouse before marriage, the rule has commonly excluded payments for taxes, insurance and interest”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele“the value of the improvements to the property, not the cost of the improvements”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele
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.