Bernstein v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2008
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 Foster v. Foster · 49 Cal. App. 2d 581 - Washburn v. Washburn · 22 Cal. App. 448 - Simmons v. Simmons · Taber v. Taber · 123 Cal. App. 589 - Gavel v. Gavel
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.
““In her brief appellant contended that eases such as Foster v. Foster, 8 Cal.2d 719 [ 68 P.2d 719 ], and Moon v. Moon, 62 Cal.App.2d 185 [ 144 P.2d 596 ], holding that to justify a modification there must be a change of circumstances arising after the original decree was entered, controlled here. This contention overlooked the evidence in the case, and the fact that, even though there were no such evidence, the rule in question is not a hard and fast one without any exception. The rule is best stated in a case arising as here, where originally the court held no hearing to determine the best interests of the child in the matter of custody, but followed the agreement as to custody made by the parties and in which ease the court refers to the Foster case above mentioned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowen v. Cowen
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.