Bainbridge v. Bainbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
16 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 26 Cal. 2d 605 - Hough v. Hough · Lazar v. Superior Court · 130 Ohio St. 214 - Holloway v. Holloway · Baxter v. Baxter · 128 Cal. App. 363 - Schnerr v. Schnerr
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly limits the court with respect to the matter of modification of support and maintenance and to the wife, to a modification of the court's orders; if there is no such order embodied within a decree, then there is nothing in this respect for the court to modify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sullivan v. Sullivan“there was no incorporation of the terms of the agreement in the divorce decree; that the agreement is not superseded by the decree but stands independent thereof and the obligations imposed under the agreement are not those imposed by decree but by contract, ... .”
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.