20 Cal. 4th 23 - Delaney v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 district · 202 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 226 - People v. Birkett (1999), 32 Cal. 4th 1266 - People v. Canty (2004)
3 district · 202 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 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · 14 Cal. 3d 831 - Estate of McDill · 8 Cal. 4th 704 - College Hospital, Inc. v. Superior Court · 7 Cal. 4th 1057 - Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. · 36 Cal. 3d 359 - American Bank & Trust Co. v. Community Hospital
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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“physical abuse ..., or neglect ..., and that the defendant has been guilty of recklessness, oppression, fraud, or malice in the commission of this abuse.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“to enable interested persons to engage attorneys to take up the cause of abused elderly persons and dependent adults.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the focus shifted to private, civil enforcement of laws against elder abuse and neglect.”
4 later decisions 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.