21 Cal. 3d 471 - Fare v. Michael C.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2010 · most notably Fare v. Michael C. (1979), 33 Cal. 3d 21 - People v. Robertson (1982)
1 federal appellate · 46 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland · 67 Cal. 2d 365 - People v. Lara · 1 Cal. 3d 855 - Nino v. Gladys R. · 68 Cal. 2d 714 - People v. Fioritto
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]t is fatuous to assume that a minor in custody will be in a position to call an attorney for assistance,' [ In Re Michael C. ], 21 Cal.3d 471, 475-476 [ 146 Cal.Rptr. 358, 360 ], 579 P.2d 7, 9 (1978), quoting People v. Burton, 6 Cal.3d 375, 382 [ 99 Cal.Rptr. 1, 5 ], 491 P.2d 793, 797 (1971), or that he will trust the police to obtain a lawyer for him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here . . . we face conduct which, regardless of considerations of capacity, coercion or voluntariness, per se invokes the privilege against self-incrimination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a trusted guardian figure who exercises the authority of the state as parens patriae and whose duty it is to implement the protective and rehabilitative powers of the juvenile court.”
2 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.