Bernard v. Bernard’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably 52 Cal. 2d 735 - Hudson v. Hudson (1959), 45 Cal. 2d 377 - Hall v. Superior Court (1955)
32 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Pereira v. Pereira · Puckett v. Puckett · De la Montanya v. De la Montanya · 4 Cal. 2d 356 - McClure v. McClure
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the court may completely sever the marital relationship, quite obviously it cannot alter the fact that the mother and father are the parents of their offspring. Therefore, the duty to support as provided in [the Civil Code] exists independently of the marriage status, and is a continuing obligation `during the minority of any of the children of the marriage.' ... It is unaffected by either the interlocutory or final decree and may be enforced by a proper proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In a proceeding, subsequent to entry of an interlocutory divorce decree, involving the husband's duty to support a minor child of the marriage, the only jurisdictional facts that must be alleged are the needs of the child and the ability to pay, and where the complaint contains such allegations the trial court has jurisdiction to make an award requiring such support.”
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.