198 Cal. App. 2d 434 - Schapiro v. Solomon’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1982
14 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 Jensen v. Nelson · In Re Estate of Kelleher · Mockbee v. Dunn · Estate of Carroll · Brewer v. Curtis
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a devisee or legatee dies during the lifetime of the testator, the testamentary disposition to him fails, unless an intention appears to substitute another in his place; except that when any estate is devised or bequeathed to any kindred of the testator, and the devisee or legatee dies before the testator, having lineal descendants, or is dead at the time the will is executed, but leaves lineal descendants surviving the testator, such descendants take the estate so given by the will in the same manner as the devisee or legatee would have done had he survived the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This provision demonstrates that the testator contemplated that contingency. Appellants make no such showing in the present case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any of my estate that may fail, for any reason, to pass under the foregoing terms and conditions of this my 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.