Nicholas v. Nicholas’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably 125 Cal. App. 2d 154 - Smith v. Smith (1954), Teichman v. Teichman (1985)
7 federal appellate · 18 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 Lewis v. Lewis · 81 Cal. App. 2d 61 - Miranda v. Miranda · Federal Mutual Liability Insurance Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission · 83 Cal. App. 356 - White v. White
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here, pursuant to an agreement, means of supporting such child are turned over to the mother, and the latter agrees to maintain the child therefrom, we are not faced with an attempt by the father to evade his legally imposed duties. In the case at bar, respondent by his labors provided means of supporting his children. Unless such means be inadequate to provide the needed support and the parent entitled to custody cannot support the child, there is no cause of action in the child for the judgment here sought.”
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.