68 Cal. App. 2d 9 - Howard v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 246 - Burch v. George (1994), Hutchinson v. Dow (1957)
55 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 Estate of Hite · Kitchen v. Ballard · In Re Estate of Miller · Morrison v. Bowman · 62 Cal. App. 265 - Estate of Moore
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any legal proceeding which is designed to result in the thwarting of the testator's wishes as expressed in his will.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“... in case such devisee or legatee should 'commence any suit or action, or submit to any court or other tribunal, or be a party to any pleading or proceeding, which suit, action, pleading or other proceeding assails or draws in question the validity or operation of any of the provisions of said will, or shall in any way question my acts in making this will, or any of its provisions. ...'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a right, title and interest in or to any property of decedent's estate.”
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.