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← 17 CAL4TH 203 - Barnum-Smith v. Joseph

Barnum-Smith v. Joseph’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

6 district · 48 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 43 Cal. 3d 1002 - People v. Woodhead · Van Arsdale v. Hollinger · 5 Cal. 4th 382 - DuBois v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board · 11 Cal. 4th 342 - California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles

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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““(a) A natural parent and child relationship is established where that relationship is presumed and not rebutted pursuant to the Uniform Parentage Act (Part 3 (commencing with Section 7600) of Division 12 of the Family Code). “(b) A natural parent and child relationship may be established pursuant to any other provisions of the Uniform Parentage Act, except that the relationship may not be established by an action under subdivision (c) of Section 7630 of the Family Code unless any of the following conditions exist: [f] .. . [][] “(2) Paternity is established by clear and convincing evidence that the father has openly held out the child as his own.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “during the person's minority and continued throughout the joint lifetimes of the person and the person's foster parent or stepparent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “that the foster parent would have adopted the foster 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.