151 Cal. App. 3d 1021 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2000
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 People v. Green · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · 15 Cal. 3d 143 - People v. Mayberry · 61 Cal. 2d 529 - People v. Hernandez · 35 Cal. 3d 257 - Burg v. Municipal Court
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was plainly intended to establish and promote the rights of putative fathers, and to remove obstacles to the maintenance of parental relations for the benefit of `illegitimate' children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The parent and child relationship extends equally to every child and to every parent, regardless of the marital status of the parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“He receives the child into his home and openly holds out the child as his natural child.”
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.