Creely v. Creely’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1976
24 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 56 Cal. App. 2d 791 - Pitzer v. Peterson · 55 Cal. App. 2d 543 - Estate of Hampton · 39 Cal. App. 471 - Moch v. Superior Court · Matter of Guardianship of Michels · 10 Cal. App. 2d 353 - Gilmore v. Paris Inn
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“left ... in the care and custody of another without any provision for his support, or without communication from ... his parents, for the period of one year”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Maxwell“Due process of law requires sufficient notice to the parents with an opportunity for them to be heard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Moilanen
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.