Wilder v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 1969 · most notably 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm (1956), 26 Cal. 2d 605 - Hough v. Hough (1945)
65 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 Stewart v. Stewart · 25 Cal. App. 323 - Kaiser v. Hancock · 69 Cal. App. 66 - Lynch v. Lynch
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This contention is based on the erroneous assumption that the cited paragraph of the contract between the parties is forever binding and obligatory upon them. This contention is clearly without merit, for the contract itself expressly provides, as indicated above, that a court of competent jurisdiction may modify the amount of the allowance therein fixed.””
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.