Sweeley v. Sweeley’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 52 Cal. 2d 735 - Hudson v. Hudson (1959), 55 Cal. 2d 867 - Martin v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board (1961)
44 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 52 Cal. App. 2d 184 - Gossman v. Gossman · Estate of Thornton · Locke Paddon v. Locke Paddon · Falk v. Falk · Mudd v. Mudd
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be a prima facie showing of three things: The existence of the marriage, the needs of the wife, and the ability of the husband to pay.”
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.