Rosendall v. Ahmed’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 5 Cal. 3d 1 - Sail'er Inn, Inc. v. Kirby · 5 Cal. 3d 296 - People v. Gary W. · 2 Cal. 3d 765 - Westbrook v. Mihaly · Davey v. Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions · 7 Cal. 3d 1 - San Diego County Department of Public Welfare v. Superior Court
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A legitimate child cannot be adopted without the consent of its parents if living; however, after the custody of any child has, by any judicial decree, been given to the father, and the mother for a period of one year fails to communicate with such child when able to do so, or been given to the mother, and the father for a period of one year shall willfully fail to pay for the care, support and education of such child when able to do so, then the parent to whom custody has been given alone may consent to such adoption,..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adoption of Van Anda
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.