Munson v. Munson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 44 Cal. 2d 434 - People v. Cahan (1955), 42 Cal. 3d 531 - Burchard v. Garay (1986)
107 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 Foster v. Foster · People v. Mayen · 16 Cal. 2d 190 - Prouty v. Prouty · Titcomb v. Superior Court of Santa Clara Cty. · Taber v. Taber
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In determining whether other things are equal within the meaning of the above code section, the trial court is necessarily allowed a wide latitude in the exercise of its discretion. In the first instance it is for the trial court to determine, after considering all the evidence, how the best interests of the child will be subserved. The question is to be determined solely from the standpoint of the child, and the feelings and desires of the contesting parties are not to be considered, except in so far as they affect the best interests of the child.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he controlling rights are those of the minor child and of the state in the child's welfare.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mere adversary proceeding between plaintiff and defendant.”
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.