9 Cal. App. 2d 665 - Dabney v. Dabney’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1976
20 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 Newman v. Burwell · Etchas v. Orena · Verdier v. Roach · 50 Cal. App. 629 - Sime v. Hunter · Miller v. Miller
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) That the defendants Louise E. Dabney, M. H. Philleo and A. S. Johnston, as administrators of the estate of Joseph B. Dabney, deceased, before the distribution of said estate deposit in court under the terms of section 953 of the Probate Code of the state of California, the sum of forty thousand seven hundred sixteen ($40,716) dollars, for the purpose of paying to the plaintiff the said installments of $100 per month and $350 per month respectively, during the remainder of plaintiff's life, when and as said installments accrue, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dabney v. Dabney
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.