Maxwell v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 263 Cal. App. 2d 661 - Cummings v. Cummings (1968), 265 Cal. App. 2d 63 - Estate of Dolley (1968)
26 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 11 Cal. 2d 108 - DeParcq v. O'Brien · Franck v. Spencer · 33 Cal. 2d 885 - Brock v. Hall · Edwardson v. Hansen · Estate of Hittell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to be gleaned from a reading of the will as a whole and not from the apparent meaning of any clause or clauses considered alone, and an interpretation is to be preferred which will prevent a total intestacy if justified by the language used in the will.”
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.