Dean v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably 19 Cal. App. 3d 115 - Philbin v. Philbin (1971), In Re Marriage of Judd (1977)
51 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 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · 21 Cal. 2d 145 - Leupe v. Leupe · 48 Cal. 2d 259 - Bratnober v. Bratnober
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“’ 2 “The general rule is that the trial court is without authority to order a reduction in the amount of alimony or support payments awarded in a decree of divorce in the absence of a showing that there has been a change in conditions subsequent to the entry of such decree; . . .” (Dean v. Dean (1963) 59 Cal.2d 655, 657 [ 31 Cal.Rptr. 64 , 381 P.2d 944 ].) In a later modification proceeding the evidence must show”
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.