57 Cal. App. 2d 652 - Moore v. Duryee’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably 46 Cal. 2d 644 - Lundberg v. County of Alameda (1956), Estate of Burnison (1949)
42 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 Collier v. Lindley · In re Estate of Royer · Estate of Halm
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testamentary provisions now before us unquestionably provide for a gift for charitable purposes to a legally constituted institution. We entertain no doubt that the Legislature in enacting section 27 of the Probate Code intended to include such institutions as the University of Washington whether or not they be designated as corporations by specific legislative enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A testamentary disposition may be made to the state ... to unincorporated religious, benevolent or fraternal societies or associations ... to corporations formed for religious, scientific, literary or solely educational or hospital or sanatorium purposes ... or for similar public purposes. No other corporation can take under a will, unless expressly authorized by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Tarrant“will be liberally construed in order to accomplish the intent of the donor.”
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.