21 Cal. 3d 482 - Detrich v. Carolyn B.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
417 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 417 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 28 Cal. 3d 908 - Department of Social Services v. Ronald P. (1981), 35 Cal. 3d 824 - People v. Burroughs (1984)
417 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 Stanley v. Illinois · 19 Cal. 2d 807 - Bernhard v. Bank of America National Trust & Saving Association · 11 Cal. 3d 679 - In Re BG · 70 Cal. 2d 347 - People v. Curtis · 53 Cal. 2d 567 - Brewer v. Simpson
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 417 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Parenting is a fundamental right, and accordingly, is disturbed only in extreme cases of persons acting in a fashion incompatible with parenthood.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“severing the parental relationship [is] the least detrimental alternative for the children.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) An action may be brought for the purpose of having any person under the age of 18 years declared free from custody and control of either or both of his parents when such person comes within any of the following descriptions: “(7) Who has been cared for in one or more foster homes under the supervision of the juvenile court, the county welfare department or other public or private licensed child-placing agency for two or more consecutive years, providing that the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that return of the child to his parent or parents would be detrimental to the child and that the parent or parents have failed during such period, and are likely to fail in the future, to “(i) Provide a home for said child; “(ii) Provide care and control for the child; “(iii) Maintain an adequate parental relationship with the child; and “(iv) Maintain continuous contact with the child, unless unable to do so. “Physical custody of the child by the parent or parents for insubstantial periods of time during the required two-year period will not serve to interrupt the running of such period.” Subparagraph (iv) of subdivision (a)(7) was deleted by the 1977 Legislature. (Stats. 1977, ch. 1252, §75, p. 4315, operative July 1,1978.) Recently, the Legislature reduced the two-year foster care period to one year and added new paragraphs at the end of subdivision (a)(7). (Sen. Bill No. 14 (1982 Reg. Sess.) Stats. 1982, ch. 978, § 1, approved by Gov., Sept. 12,1982, filed with Sec”
5 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.