Goldman v. Goldman’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably 45 Cal. App. 3d 147 - O'NEIL v. Spillane (1975), Church of the Merciful Saviour v. Volunteers of America, Inc. (1960)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 16 Cal. 2d 573 - Peterson v. Logan · Estate of Perkins · In re Estate of McDevitt · Smith v. Spaulding · Estate of Keegan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even though a donor suffers physical and mental debility, he is not thereby necessarily rendered incompetent to make a gift of his property so long as he has sufficient mental power to grasp and comprehend the nature of his act, the character of his property and his relation to the natural objects of his bounty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lusk v. Daugherty“evidence that the act in question had its genesis in the mind of the parent and that he was not goaded to a completion by any act of such child.”
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.