131 Cal. App. 2d 764 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1982
17 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 125 Cal. App. 2d 154 - Smith v. Smith · Desch v. Desch · 116 Cal. App. 2d 698 - In Re Susman · Laws v. People · People v. Driscoll
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.
““It is next contended that the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement Acts are not applicable * * * for the reason that the appellant did not flee from the state of Colorado to avoid any duty of support * * * that [his] sojourn in Colorado was intended to be temporary; that it is the respondent [wife] * * * who is in the role of a deserter or fugitive, that these * * * Acts were intended to apply only to deserting fathers who fled from the state; and that these Acts are not broad enough to apply to cases where the obligee deserts the obligor without just cause. The Acts in question are not limited to cases where an obligor flees the jurisdiction of an initiating state. They are based upon the failure to provide needed support for dependents, and the flight of the obligor is in no way made the controlling fact.””
2 later decisions 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.