42 Cal. App. 683 - Chambers v. O'Neill’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1968 · most notably 37 Wash. 2d 561 - In Re the Estate of Bordeaux (1950), In Re the Estate of McArthor (1930)
1 federal appellate · 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 Estate of Watts · In Re Estate of Brady · In Re the Estate of Klumpke · 39 Cal. App. 684 - Veirs v. Roberts · 41 Cal. App. 265 - Wright v. Rohr
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.
“The respondent's relationship to her deceased mother would be the determining factor in establishing her status as an heir of [her stepfather]; but the title to the property she is entitled to receive by reason of that status would not relate back for its origin, to her mother. It would come directly to her from her stepfather. She would take as ... [his] heir. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Calhoun
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.