66 Cal. App. 2d 549 - Maxwell v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably Williams v. Williams (1950), In Re: Charles Michael (2001)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Welch · Callnon v. Callnon · Green v. Green (1944) · Lindley v. Hinch · Paduveris v. Paris
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... acceded to the proposition embraced in the complaint and ... consented that plaintiff should obtain the relief therein prayed for, upon the conditions and facts set forth in the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Williams“... as defendant in the divorce proceedings, filed an admission of service of process, a consent to the jurisdiction, and a waiver of further service of process or notice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Williams“all the allegations of the complaint are true, and that they are sustained by testimony free from all legal exceptions. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Williams
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.