21 Cal. App. 3d 870 - Perez v. Singh’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 63 Ill. 2d 71 - Cessna v. Montgomery (1976), 91 Cal. App. 3d 271 - Ruddock v. Ohls (1979)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 48 Cal. 2d 611 - Lavine v. Jessup · Kleinclaus v. Dutard · Brownrigg v. Defrees · Kyne v. Kyne · Smith 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he obligation of a father to support his child, whether legitimate or illegitimate, is a continuing duty against which the statute of limitations does not run during the time the child needs such support.”
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.