169 Cal. App. 2d 125 - Berl v. Rosenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably United States v. Alcaraz-Garcia (1996), 162 Cal. App. 3d 1057 - In Re Marriage of Stephenson (1984)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Kennedy v. McMurray · Moore v. Trott · Knight v. Tripp · California Trust Co. v. Bennett · Cordano v. Wright
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘wish’ can undoubtedly be interpreted to express a desire that something will happen in the future. But that is not its only interpretation. It can also be interpreted as intending a present transfer, synonymous with the words ‘I hereby grant,’ words that a lawyer would probably have used. How the words should he interpreted depends upon the language in the instrument itself and the circumstances surrounding the drawing of the instrument.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it has been held that a joint tenancy in personal property can only be created by a writing (California Trust Co. v. Bennett, 33 Cal.2d 694 [ 204 P.2d 324 ]) and the intention to create a joint tenancy must be specifically set forth in the writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The method of creating a joint tenancy is set forth in section 683 of the Civil Code”
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.