Steele v. Toulson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 1997
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 62 Cal. 2d 861 - Parsons v. Bristol Development Co. · 6 Cal. 3d 311 - Estate of Dodge · Bon v. Lemp · Hembree v. Quinn · Estate of Bourn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without apportionment between remainders and temporary estates,”
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.