39 Cal. 3d 787 - Michael U. v. Jamie B.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 816 - Steven A. v. Rickie M. (1992), 43 Cal. 3d 1281 - Maria P. v. Riles (1987)
159 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 11 Cal. 3d 679 - In Re BG · 24 Cal. 3d 725 - In Re Marriage of Carney · Walling v. Kimball · 81 Cal. App. 3d 978 - Homestead Supplies, Inc. v. Executive Life Insurance · Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions v. Miriam C.
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all intendments favor the ruling below [citation], and we must assume that the trial court made whatever findings are necessary to sustain the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In defining the rights of unmarried fathers, California's Uniform Parentage Act (§ 7000 et seq.) distinguishes between a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Michael is a natural father, not a presumed father, because he has not yet received Eric into his home.”
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.