35 Cal. 3d 871 - Darces v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably In Re Marriage Cases (2008), 21 Cal. 4th 628 - Warden v. State Bar of California (1999)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 72 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1201 (§ 1001 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1351 (§ 1401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 606 (§ 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Plyler v. Doe
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The guarantees of equal protection embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and article I, section 7 of the California Constitution `compel recognition of the proposition that persons similarly situated with respect to the legitimate purpose of the law receive like treatment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, once it is determined that the classification scheme affects a fundamental interest or right the burden shifts; thereafter the state must first establish that it has a compelling interest which justifies the law and then demonstrate that the distinctions drawn by the law are necessary to further that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the resident children of illegal aliens were denied welfare assistance, made available by government to all other children who qualify, this also in my opinion would be an impermissible penalizing of children because of their parents' status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.