61 Cal. App. 4th 51 - Ike v. Doolittle’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Parker v. Powell (2000), 161 Cal. App. 4th 363 - Bilafer v. Bilafer (2008)
4 federal appellate · 39 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 Bon v. Lemp · 17 Cal. 2d 1 - Church Home for Children of Protestant Episcopal Church v. Lawrence · Hembree v. Quinn · Moxley v. Title Insurance & Trust Co. · 15 Cal. 2d 352 - Adams v. Cook
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On petition by a trustee or beneficiary, the court may modify the administrative or dispositive provisions of the trust ... if, owing to circumstances not known to the settlor and not anticipated by the settlor, the continuation of the trust under its terms would defeat or substantially impair the accomplishment of the purposes of the trust.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[i]n interpreting, a document such as a trust, it is proper for the trial court in the first instance and the appellate court on de novo review to consider the circumstances under which the document was made so that the court may be placed in the position of the testator or trustor whose language it is interpreting, in order to determine whether the terms of the document are clear and definite, or ambiguous in some respect.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'California courts have long had the equity power to modify the terms of a trust where such modification is necessary to preserve the trust or serve the original intentions of the trustor ....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schwan v. Permann
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.