McDaniel v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably 68 Cal. 2d 290 - Davis v. Davis (1968), Ex Parte Phillips (1957)
25 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 Taylor v. Catalon · Moore Son v. Moore · Kirkwood v. Domnau · Aaron v. Aaron · Carson v. Carson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think it true that certain portions of a decree or judgment which also dissolves a marriage may be rendered ineffective or inoperative by a remarriage of the parties. Examples are provisions relating to alimony payments. 27 C.J.S.. Divorce § 240, p. 1000; those relating to custody and support of children and the like. 27 C.J.S. Divorce § 323, p. 1253. But we do not believe it can be broadly maintained that the remarriage of divorced persons will in all instances place the parties and their property in the status existing prior to the divorce (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sorrels v. Sorrels“It is well settled in this State that “Where a husband and a wife, owning community property, are divorced without the court in its decree having made any division of such property in the divorce decree, they become tenants in common in the property or joint owners thereof, just as if they had never been married.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sorrels v. Sorrels
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.