Reference point: Pittman v. Hutto, 594 F.2d 407; In re Williams, 159 Cal. App.3d 600 (1984); Diaz v. Watts, 189 Cal.App.3d 657 (1987)
Some sources for online texts of U.S. court decisions:
- opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court
- search for individual state court websites
- Google Scholar
- Legal Information Institute of Cornell University
- Justia
- FindLaw