124 Cal. App. 2d 417 - Buckner v. Vetterick’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1973
16 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 110 Cal. App. 81 - Crawford v. Foster · Kastel v. Stieber · 40 Cal. 2d 503 - Farber v. Olkon · Evans v. Selma Union High School District · Hart v. Hogan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Many decisions of more importance and involving greater hazard are made by parents for their small children daily. An example is the right of a parent to consent to an operation on his child and the right of the surgeon to rely on that consent. See 70 C.J.S. Physicians and Surgeons § 48, p. 968. The same principle prevails where an adult child is an incompetent and has no legally appointed guardian. Farber v. Olkon, 40 Cal.2d 503, 509 , 254 P.2d 520 . Thus a parent may speak and act for his child when the child is legally incapable of acting for itself and others may properly rely on the action of the parent in such circumstances.””
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.