Latham v. Latham’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2019
8 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 Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop Co. · Spence v. Durham · Stanback v. Stanback · 68 Cal. 2d 290 - Davis v. Davis · Weddington v. Weddington
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n action for custody or support of minor children may be maintained ... as a civil action; joined with an action or cross action for annulment, divorce, or alimony; by motion in the cause ... in an action for annulment, divorce, or alimony; or upon the court's own motion in an action for annulment, divorce or alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e rely upon the long-settled rule that a divorce action is pending for purposes of determining custody and support until the death of one of the parties or until the youngest child born of the marriage reaches maturity, whichever event occurs first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court in which a divorce action is brought acquires jurisdiction over the custody of the unemancipated children of the marriage, and such jurisdiction continues even after the divorce becomes final.”
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.