Bishop v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably 225 Cal. App. 2d 476 - Forslund v. Forslund (1964), In Re Marriage of Russo (1971)
25 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 Estate of Bristol v. Young · 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · Smellie v. Southern Pacific Co. · 112 Cal. App. 2d 638 - Estate of Teed · Brison v. Brison
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the predeceased spouse was the source of title held by the surviving spouse at the time of the latter's death, distribution is made to the relatives of the predeceased spouse. On the other hand, even though the property originally may have been owned by the predeceased spouse, from whom it was obtained by the surviving spouse in the manner designated by the statute, i.e., gift, descent, devise, etc., if the latter at the time of death owned the property by virtue of an intervening source, i.e., `a new title,' distribution is made to the relatives of the surviving spouse. ( Estate of Abdale, supra, 28 Cal.2d 587, 591 [ 170 P.2d 918 ]; Estate of Putnam, 219 Cal. 608 [ 28 P.2d 27 ]; Estate of Flood, 55 Cal. App.2d 410 [ 130 P.2d 811 ].)”
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.