Bales v. Superior Court’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 678 - Mannheim v. Superior Court (1970), 23 Cal. 2d 761 - Estate of Axcelrod v. Pocker (1944)
43 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 5 Cal. 2d 35 - Texas Co. v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · Matter of Ford · Morrison v. Land · In Re Estate of Dolbeer · Smith v. Westerfield
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probate proceedings being purely statutory, and therefore special in their nature, the superior court, although a court of general jurisdiction, is circumscribed in this class of proceedings by the provisions of the statute conferring such jurisdiction, and may not competently proceed in a manner essentially different from that provided. (Smith v. Westerfield, 88 Cal. 374, 379 [ 26 P. 206 ].)”
2 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.