15 Cal. 2d 531 - Simon v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1993
3 federal appellate · 19 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 Plumel · 128 Cal. App. 176 - Miller v. Carrasco · Keeler v. Merchants Loan & Trust Co. · Garde v. Goldsmith
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not require that the informal document be identified with exact precision; it is enough that the descriptive words and extrinsic circumstances combine to produce a reasonable certainty that the document in question is the one referred to by the testator in his will. ... Here the letter was found in the safe deposit box with the will. It was addressed to the executors, as the will stated it would be. No other letter was found. ... It identifies itself as the letter mentioned in the will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is settled law in this state that a testator may incorporate an extrinsic document into his will, provided the document is in existence at the time and provided, further that the reference to it in the will clearly identifies it, or renders it capable of identification by extrinsic proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in substance, the will is re-executed as of that time.”
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.