28 Cal. 2d 276 - Colbert v. Colbert’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Fehlhaber v. Fehlhaber (1982), Webber v. Webber (1948)
11 federal appellate · 77 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 27 Cal. 2d 38 - Litvinuk v. Litvinuk · Carbone v. Superior Court · Mather v. Mather · Brinkley v. . Brinkley · McDonald v. McDonald
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The existence of the marriage is a jurisdictional prerequisite for the right of the court to order support, costs, and counsel fees pendente lite in an action for divorce or separate maintenance. (Carbone v. Superior Court, 18 Cal.2d 768, 771 [ 117 P.2d 872 , 136 A.L.R 1260] ; Talbot v. Talbot, 218 Cal. 1, 2 [ 21 P.2d 110 ] ; Parmann v. Parmann, 56 Cal.App.2d 67, 69 [ 132 P.2d 851 ] ; In re Cook, 42 Cal.App.2d 1, 3 [ 108 P.2d 46 ].) ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the law of the place of marriage controls the question of its validity.”
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.