68 Cal. 2d 290 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Hildebrand v. Hildebrand (1991), 101 Ill. App. 3d 677 - Ringstrom v. Ringstrom (1981)
51 state decisions — followed in 11 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 May v. Anderson · Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt · Puckett v. Puckett · 52 Cal. 2d 735 - Hudson v. Hudson · Gay v. Gay
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.
“[T]he rule as developed in other jurisdictions is that if the parties again intermarry!,] child custody and support orders as between themselves are thereupon terminated, as well as the jurisdiction of the court to enforce such orders, and that this is true whether or not the parents subse quently divorce again. (See Lockard v. Lockard (1951) 63 Ohio L. Abs. 549 , 49 Ohio Ops. 163 [ 102 N.E.2d 747, 748 ]; McDaniel v. Thompson (Tex.Civ.App., 1946) 195 S.W.2d 202, 203-204 ; Jenkins v. Followell (Okla., 1953) 262 P.2d 880, 882 ; Dunlap v. Dunlap (1923) 88 Okla. 200 [ 212 P. 608, 609 ]; Ex parte Phillips (1957) 266 Ala. 198 [ 95 So.2d 77 ]; Eppes v. Covey (Fla.App., 1962) 141 So.2d 747, 748 ; Rasch v. Rasch (1964) 250 Miss. 885 [ 168 So.2d 738, 743 ]; Lowe v. Lowe (1909) 53 Wash. 50 [ 101 P. 704, 705 ]; Oliphant v. Oliphant (1928) 177 Ark. 613 [ 7 S.W.2d 783, 786-787 ]; Cain v. Garner (1916) 169 Ky. 633 [ 185 S.W. 122 , Ann. Cas. 1918B 824, L.R.A. 1916E 682 ]; 27B C.J.S., Divorce, § 323, subd. h, p. 730; 24 Am.Jur.2d, Divorce and Separation, § 805, p. 915.).”
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.