Welsch v. Goswick’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 199 - Robbins v. Superior Court (1985), 21 Cal. 4th 1066 - Broughton v. Cigna Healthplans (1999)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Reitman v. Mulkey · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright · 25 Cal. 3d 124 - Reynolds Metals Co. v. Alperson · 1 Cal. 3d 475 - People v. Gilbert
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I conclude the trial court's enforcement of the covenant and preventing the Goswicks' present use is unconstitutional under Adamson [citation], because it lends the affirmative aid of the courts, through an eviction order, to furthering an unconstitutional invasion of the Goswicks' privacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . recent changes in the social fabric convince us that the operation of a residential care facility for six or fewer residents is not inconsistent with a single-family residential purpose restriction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . enforcement of the restrictive covenant to prohibit their providing residential care and shelter to six unrelated elderly persons unconstitutionally infringes on their right to privacy.”
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.