Worms v. Worms’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1980
23 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 People v. Robarge · 89 Cal. App. 2d 80 - Bemis v. Bemis · 57 Cal. App. 2d 844 - Guardianship of Case · 242 Cal. App. 2d 886 - Montandon v. Montandon
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts have generally recognized that the father has a protectible interest in having his child bear the parental surname in accordance with the usual custom, even though the mother may have been awarded custody of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`where the father's misconduct has been such as to justify a forfeiture of his rights or where his name is positively deleterious to the child....'”
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.