Mears v. Mears’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably 64 Cal. 2d 778 - See v. See (1966), 6 Cal. 3d 12 - Beam v. Bank of America (1971)
4 federal appellate · 96 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 · 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · 41 Cal. 2d 202 - Gudelj v. Gudelj · 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · 39 Cal. 2d 858 - De Burgh v. De Burgh
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of whether a portion of a judgment appealed from is so interwoven with its other provisions as to preclude an independent examination of the part challenged by the appellant is whether the matters or issues embraced therein are the same as, or interdependent upon, the matters or issues which have not been attacked. [Citations.]”
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.