Freed v. Berkowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1997
20 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 In Re Estate of Clary · Martin v. McGrath · Buxton v. Noble · Webb v. Fuller · Dickey v. Walrond
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“denotes that the descendants of a deceased person together take the share which the deceased person would have taken. ( Estate of Berk (1961) 196 Cal. App.2d 278, 281 [ 16 Cal. Rptr. 492 ].) This is taking by the right of representation. ( Ibid. ; former Prob. Code, § 250.) [3] The antithesis of per stirpes is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Edwards
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.