Ralphs v. Ralphs’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1976 · most notably Worthley v. Worthley (1955), 45 Cal. 2d 377 - Hall v. Superior Court (1955)
28 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 Snyder v. Snyder · 103 Cal. App. 79 - Molema v. Molema · 95 Cal. App. 304 - Burdick v. Burdick
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trial court is without authority to make an order reducing the amount of alimony [or support payments] awarded in an interlocutory [or final] decree of divorce in the absence of a showing that there has been a change in conditions subsequent to the entry of [such] decree.”
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.