Hadwiger v. Melkus’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2007
6 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 Bauquier · Secrest v. Secrest · In Re Hadwiger
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... means soundness of moral principle and character, as shown by one person's dealing with others in the making and performance of contracts, in fidelity and honesty in the discharge of trusts. In short, it is used as a synonym for probity, honesty, and uprightness in business relations with others. (Emphasis added.) The California Supreme Court ruled the executor's personal claim to property in the estate did not reflect disqualifying dishonesty. T8 The court in Hadwiger concluded that a bar disciplinary reprimand of the attorney/executor in that case, and the existence of”
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.