Wilcox v. Trautz’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003), E.N.O. v. L.M.M. (1999)
5 district · 16 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 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · J. A. Sullivan Corp. v. Commonwealth · Kozlowski v. Kozlowski · Green v. Richmond · Boland v. Catalano
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The parties have no children, and thus the agreement did not raise any issues regarding the legal restrictions on their ability to affect the rights of their children by the agreement. As to agreements that do concern children, we would not, in any event, enforce those that do not conform to the children’s best interests” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. E.N.O. v. L.M.M.
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.