9 Cal. 3d 74 - Smith v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Resource Defense Fund v. Local Agency Formation Commission (1987), Money v. Office of Personnel Management (1987)
38 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 54 Cal. 2d 234 - Torregano v. Torregano · Hunter v. Hunter · In re the Estate of Stevens · 103 Cal. App. 2d 405 - Kalmus v. Kalmus · In Re Estate of Sankey
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.
“A trial court has great discretion in the disposition of an application for a continuance. Absent a clear abuse of discretion, the court's determination will not be disturbed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“pretermitted heirs do not contest or challenge a will but take in spite of. it.”
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.