Marvin v. Marvin’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Merrill v. Abbott (In Re Independent Clearing House Co.) (1984), 215 Cal. App. 3d 832 - Hughes v. Blue Cross of Northern California (1989)
23 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 v. Green · 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · Crescent Lumber Co. v. Larson · Lande v. Jurisich
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not pass upon the question whether, in the absence of an express or implied contractual obligation, a party to a nonmarital relationship is entitled to support payments, from the other party after the relationship terminates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In making that judgment, the Court of Appeal noted that there was nothing in the trial court's findings to suggest that such an award was warranted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“some recognized underlying obligation in law or equity.”
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.