Newhall v. Melone’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1997
12 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 80 Cal. App. 2d 333 - Bevelle v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · Darter v. Magnussen · Hamilton v. Hamilton · 157 Cal. App. 2d 786 - Newhall v. Newhall · 183 Cal. App. 2d 588 - Wiley v. Wiley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what attorney fees, costs and expenses, if any, should be awarded plaintiff in respect to the litigation of defendant's motion to reduce the amount of the payments for the support of the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The award of $1,300 was not a further award. It was an allocation of an award made during the defendant's lifetime and the right to such award became final before defendant's death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the death of one of the parties does not prevent the courts from taking action to enforce the rights adjudicated prior to the death of one of the parties.”
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.