32 Cal. 2d 828 - McElroy v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 461 - Waite v. Waite (1972), 33 Cal. 2d 315 - Zaragosa v. Craven (1949)
5 federal appellate · 24 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 Berniker v. Berniker · Barnes v. Barnes · Title Ins. and Trust Co. v. Ingersoll · Lathrop v. Bampton · Lynch v. Superior Court of S.F.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The unavoidable absence of a party does not necessarily compel the court to grant a continuance. [Citations.] In such eases the court should be governed by the course which seems most likely to accomplish substantial justice, and it may take into consideration the legal sufficiency of the showing in support of the motion and the good faith of the moving party. ’ ’”
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.