Henderson v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1974
5 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 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery · Dunlap v. Dunlap · Hewlett v. George · Woods v. Lancet · Roller v. Roller
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.
“A suit upon behalf of the infant cannot properly be deemed the disrupting cause of the family's disunity when the parent by his misdeeds has already caused the tranquility of the family unit to be disturbed and shattered. It would be a distinct disservice not only to the family, but to the state, to place the court's stamp of approval upon the individual who betrayed his trust by maliciously causing injury to his child or ward.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Small v. Rockfeld
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.