Silva v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Dubay v. Irish (1988), Frye v. Frye (1986)
3 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 16 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 3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson · Klein v. Klein · Hewlett v. George · Gelbman v. Gelbman · 7 Ill. 2d 608 - Nudd v. Matsoukas
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ew rules in our time are so well established that they may not be called upon any day to justify their existence as means adapted to an end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the principles underlying the doctrine no longer have any validity.”
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.