Vargas v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1980
22 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 Smith v. Westerfield · Brecht v. Hammons · State ex rel. Shields v. Second Judicial District Court · Maricopa County v. Bloomer · First National Co. v. Strak
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Probate proceedings being purely statutory, and therefore special in their nature, the superior court, although a court of general jurisdiction, is circumscribed in this class of proceedings by the provisions of the statute conferring such jurisdiction, and may not competently proceed in a manner essentially different from that provided. * * * ’ ” 60 Ariz. at 117 , 131 P.2d at 821 (Quoting from Texas Co. v. Bank of America, etc. Assn., 5 Cal.2d 35 , 53 P.2d 127 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘ “Its power when sitting in probate matters is derived from the statute, and it cannot go beyond the provisions of the statute.” ’ ””
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.