Sanders v. Simcich’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably 54 Cal. 2d 234 - Torregano v. Torregano (1960), 23 Cal. 2d 761 - Estate of Axcelrod v. Pocker (1944)
31 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 Garwood v. Garwood · Ferrea v. Chabot
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law presumes that the subsequent marriage of a testator has wrought such a change in his condition of life as to cause him to destroy or cancel a previous will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Fourth—If both be over fifteen and under sixty, and the sexes be different, the male is presumed to have survived.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is the policy of the law that wife and children must be provided for.”
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.