Patton v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
49
cited by 49 later decisions
3
states following
November 2011
most recently cited
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 42 Cal. 2d 36 - Dexter v. Dexter (1954), Bradley v. Superior Court (1957)
45 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 Sharon v. Sharon · Adams v. Adams · Millar v. Millar · Chesney v. Byram · Hill v. Hill
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.