4 Cal. App. 97 - Soule v. Soule’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 437 - In Re Marriage of Morrison (1978), 4 Cal. 2d 356 - McClure v. McClure (1935)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Smith v. Whittier · Howell v. Howell · Ex parte Spencer · Lamb v. Wahlenmaier · Parkhurst v. Parkhurst
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a divorce is granted for an offense of the husband, the court may compel him to provide for the maintenance of the children of the marriage, and to make such suitable allowance to the wife for her support during her life or for a shorter period as the court may deem just, having regard to the circumstances of the parties respectively; and the court may from time to time modify its orders in these respects.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not the equivalent of perpetual or unending or lifelong or unchangeable ( Soule v. Soule, 4 Cal. App. 97 [ 87 P. 205 ]) or existing forever ( Hasman v. Union High School, 76 Cal. App. 629 [ 245 P. 464 ]). (2) Thus, the word”
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.