Courtney v. Nathanson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2012
20 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 Lee v. Lee · Matter of Adoption of Doe · 36 Cal. 2d 298 - Schubert v. Reich · Bank of Santa Fe v. Honey Boy Haven, Inc. · Hiatt v. Keil
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a party waives her right to appeal when she accepts the benefit of a judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marchand v. Marchand
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.