129 Cal. App. 567 - Watkins v. Clemmer’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2007
2 federal appellate · 15 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 · Schultz v. McLean · Dixon v. Dixon · Globe Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission · Pacific Gold Dredging Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The later cases follow the Pacific Gold Dredging case, wherein it is said: ‘We find no authority for holding that, as between parent and child, the father is absolved from his legal duty to provide support . . . And while, as between himself and the third parties, that obligation may be shifted in proceedings of divorce or guardianship . . . , it may be doubted if by such proceedings, to which he is not a party, a minor can be deprived of his natural right to turn to his father for maintenance, if the substituted source of supply fails’ ... It will be readily observed that all these cases deal with the duty of support as between the minor and his parent, and not with the duty of support as between a third party and the parent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fagan v. Fagan
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.