Chamberlain v. Wakefield’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Mills v. Mills (1956), Christiansen v. Roddy (1986)
32 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 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · 27 Cal. 2d 131 - Sears v. Rule · Simmons v. California Institute of Technology · 76 Cal. App. 2d 50 - Anderson v. Thacher · Swan v. Talbot
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 634 of the Code of Civil Procedure is merely directory and the fact that proposed findings were not served on appellant five days before they were signed does not impair the validity of the judgment. [Citations.] Service of findings is not required where the court does not direct their preparation by either party. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“That section is directory and not mandatory.”
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.