Unser v. Unser’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Spingola v. Spingola (1978), Matter of Adoption of John Doe (1982)
2 federal appellate · 57 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 Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. · 32 Cal. 2d 13 - Jorgensen v. Jorgensen · Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · Adams v. Adams · Sauter v. St. Michael's College
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a misrepresentation of a fact, known to be untrue by the maker, and made with an intent to deceive and to induce the other party to act upon it with the other party relying upon it to his injury or detriment”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The issue before the trial court on a petition to modify the amount of child support is whether there has been a showing of change in circumstances. The change must be substantial, materially affecting the existing welfare of the child, and must have occurred since the prior adjudication where child support was originally awarded. [Emphasis added, citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Smith“questionable as to whether the relationship of dominance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele
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.