134 Cal. App. 505 - Conley v. Waite’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2020
22 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 Mitau v. Roddan · Gartenlaub v. Union Tr. Co. of S.F.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... when an unfounded suit is brought against [the trustee] by the cestui que trust, attorney fees may be allowed him in defending the action and may be made a charge against the interest in the estate of the party causing the litigation.”
2 later decisions 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.