238 Cal. App. 2d 486 - Freeman v. Traylor’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 58 Cal. 4th 697 - Ennabe v. Manosa (2014), Walters v. Calderon (1972)
24 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 Nesbitt Fruit Products, Inc. v. Del Monte Beverage Co. · 43 Cal. 2d 828 - Burchell v. Strube · Missamore v. McPherson · Estate of Nielsen · Estate of Graham
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the compromise of a claim to an estate falling within the scope of [former] ... section 1020.1, the usual rule has been modified by statute, and the court is specifically directed to inquire into the reasonableness of the consideration in the compromisethat is to say, value received, in relation to value given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bennett“the compromise and release of a claim advanced in good faith is a good and valuable consideration which suffices to support a compromise agreement, even though later developments may prove the claim to have been ill-founded,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bennett“The probate court can set the entire agreement aside, or it can modify it to the extent it finds the consideration grossly unreasonable. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bennett
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.