97 Cal. App. 558 - Blumenthal v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1995
14 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 Hunter v. Hunter · Oborn v. State · Williams v. Williams · Wrynn v. Johnson · Belknap v. Stewart
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to be the general rule, with respect to final decrees of divorce at least, that as between the parties and privies a decree granting a divorce is conclusive of the existence of the marriage dissolved thereby.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Godfrey v. Godfrey
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.