In Re Mark’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 295 - San Diego County Department of Social Service v. Norma M. (1994), 209 Cal. App. 3d 886 - San Diego County Department of Social Services v. Lee P. (1989)
28 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 11 Cal. 3d 679 - In Re BG · 28 Cal. 3d 908 - Department of Social Services v. Ronald P. · Mervin v. Gustave G. · 53 Cal. App. 3d 300 - Tulare County Welfare Department v. Carolyn M. · 87 Cal. App. 3d 864 - Department of Social Services v. Carol T.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a reviewing court will not disturb that decision unless the trial court has exceeded the limits of legal discretion by making an arbitrary, capricious, or patently absurd determination [citations].'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(4) Whose parent or parents are convicted of a felony, if the facts of the crime of which the parent or parents were convicted are of a nature so as to prove the unfitness of the parent or parents to have the future custody and control of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An action may be brought for the purpose of having any child under the age of 18 years declared free from the custody and control of either or both of his or her parents when the child comes within any of the following descriptions:”
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.