Swain v. Swain’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1992
22 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 32 Cal. 2d 13 - Jorgensen v. Jorgensen · 189 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Clevenger v. Clevenger · 60 Cal. 2d 572 - Johnson v. Hayes Cal Builders, Inc. · 225 Cal. App. 2d 476 - Forslund v. Forslund · Ringwalt v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we see it ... a significance attaches to these [probation] reports beyond the evidence of an ordinary witness. They are, of course, evidence, but they are more than that.... [T]he probation officer becomes, in a domestic relations proceeding, a special arm of the court to investigate the status of the children and report.”
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.