110 Cal. App. 499 - Atkinson v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1980
21 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 In Re Estate of Blake · In Re Estate of Plumel · Franck v. Spencer · In Re Estate of Henderson · In Re Estate of Spitzer
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of the former, and that therefore it does not come within the definition of an olographic will, which is a will `entirely written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator himself'.... The only difference between an olographic and an attested will is in the form of execution .... One form is the precise equivalent of the other.... Whatever may be done in or by the one may be done in or by the other.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“On July 9, 1913, the decedent drew ink lines through the words of the second and third clauses of [that] will and wrote, in red ink, across the typewritten lines thereof the following:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere presence of typewritten words upon the paper upon which the codicil is written does not render the olographic codicil, of which such words form no part, invalid. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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