Graham v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 91 Cal. App. 3d 271 - Ruddock v. Ohls (1979), Bethell v. Bethell (1980)
49 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 Estate of Bristol v. Young · 25 Cal. 2d 520 - Teel v. Gaskill · 45 Cal. 2d 501 - Griffith Co. v. San Diego College for Women · Goorberg v. the Western Assurance Co. · Panno v. Russo
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[6, 7] Although no case has been found expressly holding that one may waive the benefit of any award for alimony and support, the law is well settled that one may waive any civil right (25 Cal. Jur. 929; In re Estate of Shapiro, 79 Cal. App.2d 731, 733 , 181 P.2d 117 ), and that “[a]ny one may waive the advantage of law intended solely for his benefit.” Civil Code § 3513. A wife may waive her right to alimony pendente lite (Patton v. Patton, 32 Cal.2d 520 , 196 P.2d 909 ), and her right to avoid a transfer of community real property executed solely by her husband. Rice v. McCarthy, 73 Cal. App. 655 , 239 P. 56 . There appears to be no valid reason why a woman cannot also waive her right to a portion of the alimony and support provided for by a decree of divorce so as to relieve her former husband of a charge of contempt based upon a willful disobedience of said order. Graham v. Graham, 345 P.2d 316 (Cal. App. 1959).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slohoda v. Slohoda“If a court order or judgment admits of two constructions, that one will be adopted which is consistent with the judgment required by the facts and the law of the case [citations]. In construing a court order or judgment, resort may be had to the pleadings and findings.”
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.