134 Cal. App. 2d 219 - Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 437 - In Re Marriage of Morrison (1978), 48 Cal. 2d 259 - Bratnober v. Bratnober (1957)
37 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 Baldwin v. Baldwin · 4 Cal. 2d 356 - McClure v. McClure · 4 Cal. App. 97 - Soule v. Soule · Baxter v. Baxter · 100 Cal. App. 2d 601 - Harrold v. Harrold
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [T]he court may compel the party against whom the decree or judgment is granted to make such suitable allowance for support and maintenance of the other party for his or her life, or for such shorter period as the court may deem just, having regard for the circumstances of the respective parties ‘ ‘ That portion of the decree or judgment making any such allowance or allowances, and the order or orders of the court to enforce the same . . . may be modified or revoked at any time at the discretion of the court except as to any amount that may have accrued prior to the order of modification or revocation. ’ ’”
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.