4 Cal. 3d 873 - Ballard v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 247 - Friends of Mammoth v. Board of Supervisors (1972), 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant (1972)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 132 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Barrows v. Jackson · Moore v. Ogilvie · 3 Cal. 3d 16 - In Re William M. · 71 Cal. 2d 954 - People v. Belous
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[w]hile ordinarily, mandamus may not be available to compel the exercise by a court or officer of the discretion possessed by them in a particular manner, or to reach a particular result, it does lie to command the exercise of discretion to compel some action upon the subject involved.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n unmarried pregnant minor understandably might be reluctant to seek parental consent for medical care related to her pregnancy and that the parents of such a minor might refuse consent for reasons unrelated to the health of the minor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Azar
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.