Lamberson v. Lamberson’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2000
16 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. App. 70 - Culp v. Culp · Miles v. Miles · Davison v. Davison · Wohlfort v. Wohlfort · Purdy v. Ernst
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an action for divorce and child custody, the court modified its final judgment as to the custody of the child; notice of the hearing of this motion to change the custody should have been given to all interested parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. Bailey
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.