Shields v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably King v. Bankerd (1985), 14 Cal. App. 3d 198 - Oldenkott v. American Electric, Inc. (1971)
50 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 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · 20 Cal. 2d 457 - Blank v. Coffin · 21 Cal. 2d 654 - Hicks v. Reis · 12 Cal. 2d 598 - Hamilton v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · 23 Cal. 2d 849 - Hannah v. Pogue
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A power of attorney conferring authority to sell, exchange, transfer or convey real property for the benefit of the principal does not authorize a conveyance as a gift or without a substantial consideration (citations omitted); and a conveyance without the scope of the power conferred is void." (citations omitted). 19 Cal. Rptr. 130 -131.”
4 later decisions 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.