10 Cal. 3d 460 - People v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 202 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably People v. Green (1980), 42 Cal. 3d 730 - People v. Rodriguez (1986)
10 federal appellate · 202 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 2 Cal. 3d 362 - People v. Terry · People v. Dail · People v. Warren · 60 Cal. 2d 554 - In Re Imbler
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The jurors must be warned that, in effect, the accomplice may tailor the truth to his or her own self-serving mold, and that they are to weigh the testimony with that caveat in mind.' Id., quoting People v. Gordon, 10 Cal.3d 460, 471 , 110 Cal.Rptr. 906, 913 , 516 P.2d 298, 305 (1973).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beene · State v. Laib“[a]ll persons concerned in the commission of a crime . . . whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, or, not being present, have advised and encouraged its commission . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The jury is to be admonished so that it will not accept the words of an accomplice at face value, with any presumption of truthfulness and candor, or upon the same standard as that applied to other witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beene
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.