Henderson v. Woolley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Squeglia v. Squeglia (1995), Giordano v. Giordano (1995)
4 district · 52 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 Dubay v. Irish · 3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson · Goller v. White · Hewlett v. George · Briere v. Briere
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purpose of the preservation of family harmony cannot justify immunity in the case of sexual abuse of a child by a parent.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“involving the exercise of parental authority or supervision . . . [and] the performance of parental duties such as the use of care to provide a safe place to live or adequate necessaries or proper instruction and training.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court has indicated its reluctance to abandon parental immunity in regard to the performance of acts involving parental care, supervision and discretion.”
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.