97 Cal. App. 144 - Cummings v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1991 · most notably 47 Cal. 2d 45 - People v. Burke (1956), 17 Cal. 2d 108 - Biewend v. Biewend (1941)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · 4 Cal. App. 97 - Soule v. Soule · Fanchier v. Gammill
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the question seems to be a new one in this state, yet there is respectable authority in other states to support the doctrine that a judgment for alimony of a sister state may be enforced in the same manner that it could have been enforced if originally obtained here. . . . The facts alleged and proved entitled the plaintiff to equitable relief and the relief granted seems appropriate. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shibley v. Shibley““A judgment for alimony is not subject to modification as to sums already accrued and past due. This is the law of California and New York. (Soule v. Soule, 4 Cal. App. 97 [ 87 Pac. 205 ]; Sistare v. Sistare, 218 U. S. 1 [20 Ann. Cas. 1061, 28 L. R. A. (N S.) 1068, 54 L. Ed. 905 , 30 Sup. Ct. Rep. 682, see, also, Rose’s U. S. Notes].)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shibley v. Shibley
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.