Willson v. Security-First National Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably Ephraim v. Metropolitan Trust Co. (1946), Popcorn Equipment Co. v. Page (1949)
93 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 19 Cal. 2d 72 - Hammell v. Britton · Estate of McLellan · Carr v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · Colden v. Costello · 121 Cal. App. 38 - California Trust Co. v. Hubbell
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that the court sitting in probate, although determining the extent of the individual liability of the trustee, may not render a personal money judgment against him upon which execution may be had. (Estate of McLellan, 8 Cal.2d 49 [ 63 P.2d 1120 ]; Costa v. Superior Court, 137 Cal. 79 [ 69 P. 840 ]; Estate of Rey, 31 Cal.App.2d 648 [ 88 P.2d 718 ].) But the probate decree may be enforced by appropriate means, as by contempt if the trustee is able to pay, or by an action at law based on the probate decree, in like manner as an order settling accounts and for final distribution in the estate of a decedent may be made the basis of contempt proceedings or an action at law. (11B Cal.Jur. 1148, p. 617; see, also, 1310-1312, pp. 818-821, citing cases; 1021, Prob. Code.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Evans“The plaintiff further contends that the decree of the probate court in an accounting proceeding cannot determine the validity of securities,. ... The question on the settlement of the trustee's account in whether the trustee shall be individually liable for the amount of trust funds expended for the certificate. For the purpose of determining this monetary liability the probate court can pass upon the validity of the security, even though such determination, binding as between the trustee and beneficiary, would not conclude a third party who had issued and sold the security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Crane“To hold that a court may generally take judicial notice of another proceeding with a view to determining whether it is a bar to the pending suit, would do away with the rule that the defense of res judicata may not be raised by demurrer unless the facts appear in the complaint, in those cases where the judgment relied on as a bar was rendered by the same court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weil v. Barthel
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.