49 Cal. 2d 749 - Halldin v. Usher’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Van Houten v. Whitaker (1959), Benton v. Albuquerque National Bank (1985)
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 4 Cal. 2d 128 - Brant v. California Dairies, Inc. · Andrews v. California Trust Co. · 35 Cal. 2d 93 - Estate of Sargavak · P. A. Smith Co. v. Muller · Michels v. Olmstead
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly it would seem that the words 'whole control' in the present document are not so free from ambiguity as to prevent the court from resorting to extrinsic evidence to ascertain their meaning. That evidence clearly indicates as found by the court that it was not the intention of the parties to leave the survivor destitute and without means of support as might be the case if the construction urged by the plaintiff were adopted.”
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.