For the purposes of this chapter, “decedent’s successor in interest” means the beneficiary of the decedent’s estate or other successor in interest who succeeds to a cause of action or to a particular item of the property that is the subject of a cause of action.
Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 377.11
Definitions
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Torres v. Bayer Corp. (2010)
Most recently applied in Garlick v. County of Kern (March 2016)
Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 178, Sec. 20
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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