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← 43 CAL2D 379 - In Re Floyd

In Re Floyd’s Empirical Analysis

1954

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
4
states following
September 1968
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 125 Cal. App. 2d 154 - Smith v. Smith · 116 Cal. App. 2d 698 - In Re Susman

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]hile either or both courses of action [civil or criminal] may be pursued, the election lies wholly with the demanding state and the obligee; and the obligor may not independently institute an action in the responding state for the purpose of defeating the extradition process.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “without evidence of the conditions, circumstances and needs of the obligee before the court, insufficient or token support payments might suffice to immunize the obligor from extradition.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “any state in which any proceeding pursuant to the proceeding in the initiating state is or may be commenced.”
    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.