Frank v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2002
2 district · 12 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 Hollywood Circle, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control · 44 Cal. 2d 715 - Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. McConnell · 227 Cal. App. 2d 1 - Farley v. Farley · Signal Oil & Gas Co. v. Ashland Oil & Refining Co. · Frank v. Frank
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By failing to challenge the alimony award on appeal, he encouraged plaintiff to rely upon its validity, preserved for his own benefit the automatic four-year termination provision which would obviously have been highly favorable to him had plaintiff not remarried within that period and, at the same time, gambled upon the fact that if she did remarry within four years, he could attack the alimony award collaterally and prevail in any event.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the general rule in this state that a judgment or order is res judicata even though contrary to statute where the court has jurisdiction of both the subject matter and the parties.”
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.