Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 26 Cal. 3d 323 - Henn v. Henn (1980), 1 Cal. 3d 467 - Kulchar v. Kulchar (1969)
19 federal appellate · 64 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 Brown v. Brown · Burtnett v. King · DeYoung v. DeYoung · Horton v. Horton · Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Welch
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`has been personally served with summons or has actual knowledge of the existence of the litigation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“only where the record shows an express finding upon the allegation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“judgment was secured by default does not warrant the application of a special rule.”
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.