Williams v. Babb’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably Raphael v. Raphael (1949), 62 Cal. 2d 213 - Estate of Mason (1965)
2 district · 83 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 Steinberger v. Young · In re Estate of Marrey · McKee v. Cal. Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church · In Re Estate of Page · In Re Estate of Rounds
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not a party aggrieved by a decree of distribution determining the rights of several devisees to the estate of the testator....”
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.