Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1961
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · Sparks v. Sparks · 79 Cal. App. 2d 863 - Webb v. Saunders · 154 Cal. App. 2d 156 - Kloehn v. Prendiville
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Undue influence has been defined to be that kind of influence or supremacy of one mind over another by which that other is prevented from acting according to his own wish or judgment, and whereby the will of the person is overborne and he is induced to do or forbear to do an act which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheat v. Morse
How this case has been treated — in progress
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