Chavez v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Parks v. Parks (1978), Ellsworth v. Ellsworth (1981)
36 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Flaxman v. Flaxman · Hollingsworth v. Hicks · Dunham v. Stitzberg · Kuert v. Kuert · Chronister Ex Rel. Chronister v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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.