15 Cal. App. 363 - Chadbourne v. Chadbourne’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 1974 · most notably 20 Cal. 2d 48 - Estate of Mitchell (1942), Estate of Buchman (1954)
37 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 Hayes v. County of Los Angeles · Quatman v. McCray · People ex rel. Davidson v. Perry · Heisler v. Sharp · In re Estate of Ballentine
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In accordance with this primary rule of interpretation courts have construed `may' as mandatory, giving it the meaning of `shall' or `must' [citations]; and in many cases it is held that shall and must are directory merely. [Citations.]”
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.