55 Cal. App. 2d 579 - Shields v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably Di Corpo v. Di Corpo (1948), 47 Cal. 2d 121 - Foust v. Foust (1956)
26 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 Parker v. Parker · Jardine v. Superior Court · Harlan v. Harlan · Savage v. Smith · Saunders v. Simms
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.
“Whenever an order for the payment of a sum of money is made by a Court, pursuant to the provisions of this Code, IT MAY BE ENFORCED BY EXECUTION IN THE SAME MANNER AS IF IT WERE A JUDGMENT.”
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.