Wickware v. Session’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1999
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Davis v. Davis · Esparza v. Esparza · John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Stanley · Martinez v. Gutierrez · Lamb v. Hardy
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duly acknowledged ... i.e. that they had been legitimated pursuant to California law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moorehead v. Bowen“the law of California determines the status of [the children].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moorehead v. Bowen
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.