Ramsbottom v. Ramsbottom’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2004
15 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 Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner · 42 Cal. 2d 55 - Flynn v. Flynn · Gottsegen v. Gottsegen · Fox v. Fox · Gayet v. Gayet
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A necessary incident to the court's power to grant alimony is the power to modify it. The court has the power to modify any judgment relative thereto that it might have made in the original suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nothing herein provided shall affect the power of the court as heretoafter provided by law to alter, amend, or annul any order of alimony heretofore entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“decree may be made retroactive in the court's discretion to the date that the court finds that a substantial change in circumstances has occurred. . . .,”
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.