Becker v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 1986 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 437 - In Re Marriage of Morrison (1978), Hall v. Hall (1954)
48 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 21 Cal. 2d 145 - Leupe v. Leupe · Wilder v. Wilder · 7 Cal. 2d 48 - Bruton v. Tearle · Marshall v. Marshall · Snyder v. Snyder
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As we understand the phrase ‘circumstances of the parties’ as used in the decisions, it refers to the needs of the parties and the abilities of the parties to meet such needs; and in measuring such circumstances, consideration should be given to property owned and obligations to be met as well as to ability to earn and actual earnings. * * * ” 148 P.2d at 383 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Norton
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.