Koutnik v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably 109 Cal. App. 2d 803 - Utz v. Aureguy (1952), Sidebotham v. Robison (1954)
6 federal appellate · 28 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 In re the Estate of Wilmerding · California Trust Co. v. Cassidy · 32 Cal. App. 2d 337 - Cohen v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · In Re Estate of Kirby · 60 Cal. App. 2d 699 - Estate of Taitmeyer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of inheritance ... as well as the right of testamentary disposition are entirely within the control of the state legislature and are subject only to the conditions prescribed by such body [citations; emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Daniels“[S]ince the state Legislature has not seen fit to deprive a spouse who is guilty of marital misconduct of being the heir of his or her deceased spouse, the courts may not place any such restriction upon inheritance.”
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.