Phelan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably 29 Cal. 2d 541 - Zaslow v. Kroenert (1946), 88 Cal. App. 441 - Wood v. Henley (1928)
44 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 Kearney v. Kearney · In re Estate of Moore · Miller v. Myers · In re the Estate of Lahiff · Gruwell v. Seybolt
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“setting apart a homestead is a part of the probate proceeding as much as is a family allowance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. To support the family for a period; 2. To set apart a homestead to the family,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the provision for the support of the family and of the homestead,”
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.