Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Board of Supervisors of Elections v. Weiss (1958), State v. Knill (1982)
30 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 Platt · 29 Cal. 2d 423 - Loring v. Town of Kingsley · 32 Cal. 2d 1 - Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co. v. Superior Court · Estate of Van Deusen · King v. King
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Such' is a relative adjective referring back to and identifying something previously spoken of. It naturally, by grammatical usage, refers to the last precedent antecedent. [Citations.] In this respect it is equivalent to 'said', 'aforesaid', 'afore-described' and 'same,' as to all of which the same grammatical rule applies, i.e., in the absence of some controlling reason they refer to the last antecedent. [Citations.]”
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.