Doolittle v. McConnell’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably 45 Cal. App. 2d 46 - Sonnicksen v. Sonnicksen (1941), Philbrook v. Randall (1924)
57 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 William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Frost v. Witter · Cox v. McLaughlin · Sloane v. Southern California Railway Co. · Western States Life Ins. Co. v. Lockwood
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he claim must of necessity be authenticated by a verification which on its face contains the essential matters prescribed by section 1494 [now Prob. Code, § 705] of the Code of Civil Procedure.”
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.