14 Cal. 3d 557 - Kirkpatrick v. Aline D.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 522 - People v. Eric J. (1979), 30 Cal. 3d 176 - People v. Ricky H. (1981)
3 federal appellate · 169 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 59 Cal. 2d 128 - In Re De La O · 7 Cal. 3d 575 - Bryan v. Superior Court · 25 Cal. App. 3d 86 - In Re JLP
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`secure for each minor ... such care and guidance, preferably in his own home, as will serve the ... welfare of the minor and the best interests of the State; ... and when the minor is removed from his own family, to secure for him custody, care, and discipline as nearly as possible equivalent to that which should have been given by his parents.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“No ward of the juvenile court shall be committed to the Youth Authority unless the judge of the court is fully satisfied that the mental and physical condition and qualifications of the ward are such as to render it probable that he will be benefited by the reformatory educational discipline or other treatment provided by the Youth Authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Any reasonable order; 3 (2) Supervision of the probation officer; (3) Commitment of the minor to the custody of a reputable person consenting thereto; (4) Award of custody to a public or private entity designed to care for minors, with the consent of the agency; (5) Custody, to the probation officer, to be placed in a foster home facility (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 727); (6) Commitment to a juvenile home, ranch camp or forestry camp; (7) Juvenile hall confinement (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 730); (8) All of the above plus orders for restitution and/or participation in uncompensated work programs; (9) Commitment to a sheltered care facility; (10) Commitment to CYA (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 731).”
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.