94 Cal. App. 674 - Sullivan v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 118 Cal. App. 2d 300 - Estate of Moody (1953), Goldberg v. Bloch (1952)
27 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 Lockbihler v. Young · In Re Estate of Plumel · In Re the Estate of Manchester · Estate of Bernard · In Re the Estate of McMahon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining the sufficiency of the description in the second document to incorporate the first by reference, logic directs that the sealing of the two documents in one envelope is just as eloquent as the attaching together of the two documents by other mechanical means.”
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.