Daniels v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 744 - Crail v. Blakely (1973), 213 Cal. App. 2d 803 - Goldstein v. Hoffman (1963)
38 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 16 Cal. 2d 516 - Bank of California v. Superior Court · Brown v. Superior Court · Notten v. Mensing · Frazier v. Patterson · 45 Cal. App. 2d 46 - Sonnicksen v. Sonnicksen
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conjoint or mutual will is valid, but it may be revoked by any of the testators in like manner with any other will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Novick v. Booker
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.