Larson v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2019
10 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 Sahler v. Sahler · Williams v. Williams · 80 Cal. App. 2d 333 - Bevelle v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · Bunnell v. Kindt · 32 Mich. App. 289 - LeTarte v. LeTarte
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Marriage] is terminated in only two waysdeath or divorce. Death having come in advance of any judicial decree the [marriage] was thereby severed. Thereafter there was no [marriage] upon which the decree could work. The law in this state is as it is in many others: in a suit for divorce where the death of one of the parties to the suit occurs before a decree of divorce has been issued the action abates and the jurisdiction of the court to proceed with the action or to make further determination of property rights, alimony, costs or attorney's fees is terminated."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thorson v. Thorson“But there will be a divorce. The only thing for me to decide now is the financial arrangements and I'll do that after five days from now so you will have the decision within about two weeks from now.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andersen v. Andersen“that the suit for divorce abated upon the death of [Husband] and that at his death [Wife] became his widow.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andersen v. Andersen
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.