5 Cal. 4th 84 - Johnson v. Calvert’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably 37 Cal. 4th 108 - Elisa B. v. Superior Court (2005), In Re Marriage Cases (2008)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 144 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Stanley v. Illinois · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Lehr v. Robertson · Michael v. Gerald D
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The parent and child relationship extends equally to every child and to every parent, regardless of the marital status of the parents.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`[m]ental concept of the child is a controlling factor of its creation '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the only statutory guidance this court has in resolving this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.