138 Cal. App. 4th 1408 - Walker v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2024
19 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 2 Cal. 3d 557 - Denham v. Superior Court · 31 Cal. 3d 676 - White v. County of Sacramento · 17 Cal. 3d 738 - In Re Marriage of Fonstein · 26 Cal. 4th 735 - Renee J. v. Superior Court · 28 Cal. 4th 828 - Myers v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ermitting a party to claim error regarding a claim not raised and litigated below 'is both unfair to the trial court and unjust to the opposing litigant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a legislative declaration of an existing statute's meaning is neither binding nor conclusive on the courts in construing the statute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A clarified law is simply a statement of what the law has always been.”
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.