3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 292 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 310 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court (1978), 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager (1971)
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 292 state decisions — followed in 36 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 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · Goller v. White · 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery · Klein v. Klein · Dunlap v. Dunlap
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 310 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ordinarily reasonable and prudent parent”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Where the alleged negligent act involves an exercise of parental authority over the child; and (2) where the alleged negligent act involves an exercise of ordinary parental discretion with respect to the provision of food, clothing, housing, medical and dental services, and other care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * Since the law imposes on the parent a duty to rear and discipline his child and confers the right to prescribe a course of reasonable conduct for its development, the parent has a wide discretion in the performance of his parental functions, but that discretion does not include the right wilfully to inflict personal injuries beyond the limits of reasonable parental discipline. No sound public policy would be subserved by extending it beyond those limits. * * *”
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.