82 Cal. App. 3d 608 - In Re Christopher B.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably In Re Jeannette v. Margery (1979), 109 Cal. App. 3d 384 - O'Neal v. Jeremy C. (1980)
63 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 Chapman v. State of California · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc. · 11 Cal. 3d 679 - In Re BG
Most-quoted passages
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“parent at a dependency hearing cannot assert the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule, since `the potential harm to children in allowing them to remain in an unhealthy environment outweighs any deterrent effect which would result from suppressing evidence' unlawfully seized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The possibility that such an extension might result in the suffering or deprivation of innocent children is too high a price to pay for any slight additional deterrent effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall then proceed to hear evidence on the question of the proper disposition to be made of the minor....”
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.