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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”

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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.