Lemons v. Lemons’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2022
19 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 Foote v. Foote · 41 Cal. App. 2d 208 - Remondino v. Remondino · Dresser v. Dresser · Friedman v. Friedman · Bishop v. Bishop
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor was the action of this court in denying plaintiff’s application to assume original jurisdiction a holding that the judgment was one for alimony and res judica-ta to that effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lowrance v. Patton
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.