Klein v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Dillon v. Legg (1968), 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo (1973)
16 federal appellate · 170 state decisions — followed in 28 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 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery · 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens · 57 Cal. 2d 488 - Corning Hospital District v. Superior Court · 58 Cal. 2d 683 - Self v. Self
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be a sad commentary on the law if we were to admit that the judicial processes are so ineffective that we must deny relief to a person otherwise entitled simply because in some future case a litigant may be guilty of fraud or collusion. Once that concept were accepted, then all causes of action should be abolished. Our legal system is not that ineffectual.”
4 later decisions 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.