Falk v. Falk’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 1974 · most notably People v. Sanson (1957), 45 Cal. 2d 1 - Tanzola v. De Rita (1955)
46 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 Gay v. Gay · Mercantile Trust Co. v. Sunset Road Oil Co. · Wilder v. Wilder · City of Oakland v. Pacific Coast Lumber & Mill Co. · 103 Cal. App. 583 - Ritter v. Ritter
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory right to necessary alimony pendente lite is separate and distinct from an award of permanent alimony or maintenance which may be awarded under proper circumstances. The fact that the wife was awarded one-half of the community property furnishes no reason why she may not also be entitled to alimony pendente lite, particularly when the custody and control of the entire community property is retained by the husband.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smyth v. Smyth““In deciding whether such an allowance should be made, the court is authorized to take into consideration the facts and circumstances of the respective spouses; the property which they possess; their earning ability and their needs. The wife is entitled to be maintained, during the time the litigation is in progress, in substantially the same manner and condition she was accustomed to live and in her station of life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smyth v. Smyth
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.