Colden v. Costello’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 1982 · most notably 65 Cal. 2d 192 - Estate of Baglione (1966), Willson v. Security-First National Bank (1943)
56 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 the Estate of Burdick · Estate of Dunphy v. Dunphy · In re the Estate of Burton · 127 Cal. App. 80 - Estate of McCarthy · Bath v. Valdez
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Probate Code provides one comprehensive, exclusive method for administration upon the estates of decedents. The proceeding is in rem and the jurisdiction of the Court is complete over the property of the estate and over all persons claiming interests therein under the decedent, as to all matters involved in a complete and effective administration. . . . The title of a surviving wife to her interest in the community estate rests upon a decree of distribution. Her right as survivor of the community is one thing; the decree of distribution which determines and identifies the estate which comes to her by virtue of her right is quite another, and is indispensable as a muniment of her title. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that it is not contended on the appeal that the prosecution of the separate declaratory relief actions would violate the will....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that all, any or no part of the estate is community property”
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.