Ashwell v. Ashwell’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 725 - In Re Marriage of Carney (1979), 33 Cal. 3d 138 - Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions v. Sandara K. (1982)
67 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 Foster v. Foster · 16 Cal. 2d 190 - Prouty v. Prouty · 49 Cal. App. 2d 581 - Washburn v. Washburn · Munson v. Munson · 32 Cal. App. 2d 130 - In Re Inman
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n determining where custody of children shall lie the courts are not engaged in a disciplinary action to punish parents for their shortcomings as individuals nor to reward the unoffending parent for any wrong suffered by the sins of the other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he prime question is, what is the effect upon the lives of the children.”
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.