33 Cal. App. 2d 379 - Switzer v. Eakle’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably 41 Cal. 2d 1 - Jamison v. Johnson (1953), MacKechnie v. Oliver (1949)
40 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 In re Estate of McDevitt · In Re the Estate of Arnold · Snowball v. Snowball · Estate of Graves · In Re Estate of Relph
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are instructed that where a confidential relationship exists between the testatrix and the beneficiary under the will, coupled with activity on the part of the beneficiary in the preparation of the will, and is profiting unduly thereby, casts upon the proponent the burden of showing that the will was not the product of such imposition and you are further instructed that the mere fact that the will was executed out of the presence of proponent does not in itself refute the charge of imposition or presumption. It is a circumstance, however, to be considered by you.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacKechnie v. Oliver
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.