Mattson v. Mattson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2008
12 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 6 Cal. 3d 673 - In Re Marriage of McKim · 28 Cal. App. 3d 108 - In Re Marriage of Walton · Strater v. Strater · Frost v. Lucey · Reville v. Reville
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The necessity of a breakdown in the marriage is a legislative substitute for a required finding of fault in one of the parties in a divorce action.... Just as the fault of one partner must exist whenever a divorce is granted on any other grounds, a breakdown in the marriage must necessarily exist if the court finds the required degree of irreconcilable difference on which to premise granting a divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henriksen v. Cameron“marital differences are irreconcilable and the marriage has broken down.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henriksen v. Cameron
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.