community property
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 101 - Poe v. Seaborn · 1930Most cited · 1,042 citing opinions
the wife has, in Washington, a vested property right in the community property, equal with that of her husband; and in the income of the community, including salaries or wages of either husband or wife, or both
How often courts cite the case defining “community property”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “community property” — 1,042 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.