148 Cal. App. 4th 1513 - Stewart v. Seward’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 27 Cal. 4th 1112 - Zelig v. County of Los Angeles · 121 Cal. App. 4th 353 - Goehring v. Chapman University · 64 Cal. App. 4th 842 - Battuello v. Battuello · 89 Cal. App. 4th 530 - Dobler v. Arluk Medical Center Industrial Group, Inc. · 102 Cal. App. 4th 1256 - Levine v. Levine
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) If a person has a claim that arises from a promise or agreement with a decedent to distribution from an estate or trust or under another instrument, whether the promise or agreement was made orally or in writing, an action to enforce the claim to distribution may be commenced within one year after the date of death, and the limitations period that would have been applicable does not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“claim that arises from a promise or agreement with a decedent to distribution from an estate”
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.