121 Cal. App. 2d 633 - Starr v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1977
21 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 People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Finlay v. Finlay · Yarborough v. Yarborough · Sampsell v. Superior Court
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the decrees of California courts with respect to child custody are subject to modification or annulment in this state, they are likewise subject to modification or annulment in any state having jurisdiction over the subject matter, for such a decree ‘has no constitutional elaim to a more conclusive or final effect in the State of the forum than it has in the State where rendered.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van Kolken v. Levy“The Nevada statutes in this regard (Section 9462 N.C.L. as amended in 1947) are substantially the same as Civil Code, § 138 of this state, which gives a continuing jurisdiction to modify or vacate a prior award of support. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dees v. McKenna
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.