21 Cal. 2d 586 - Lissner v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 29 Cal. 2d 423 - Loring v. Town of Kingsley (1946), 37 Cal. 2d 672 - Dabney v. Philleo (1951)
27 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 · Murray v. Murray · Martinovich v. Marsicano · Burris v. Kennedy · Estate of Davis
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the adjudication of the meaning of the words 'successor in interest' ... in distinguishable situations ... is not determinative of the scope of that phrase as used by the Legislature relative to litigation in probate proceedings.”
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.