178 Cal. App. 2d 492 - Cushman v. Cushman’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2016
24 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 Parker v. Parker · 137 Cal. App. 2d 748 - Newton v. Thomas · Darsie v. Darsie · 139 Cal. App. 2d 121 - Shumate v. Johnson Publishing Co. · Majors v. Majors
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The obvious reasoning behind the rule that where a divorce decree is entered by default, alimony may not be granted if not prayed for in the complaint, is that a party has a right to assume that the judgment following his default will not go beyond the issues presented by the complaint and the relief asked therein, and if a judgment other than that demanded is taken against him, he is deprived of his day in court (citations omitted); . . . ” 3 Cal.Rptr. at 26 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Qualls v. Qualls“one cannot on appeal complain of rulings assented to or acquiesced in by him in the court below”
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.