102 Cal. App. 2d 60 - People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1983 · most notably 39 Cal. 2d 41 - In Re Levi (1952), People v. Dewson (1957)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 People v. Gory · People v. Williams · People v. Weinstein · People v. Giles
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All that appears here is that defendant was not present on her hearing for probation and sentence; . . .; that five days later she again was not present; whereupon, judgment was pronounced. For all that the record shows, the defendant may have been kept away from court by some untoward circumstance beyond her control. “In such eases as this the record must show that diligent effort has been made to find the defendant, and the reason for his absence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Judgment upon persons convicted of commission of crime shall be pronounced as follows: “1. If the conviction be for a felony, the defendant must be personally present when judgment is pronounced against him, unless after the exercise of reasonable diligence to procure the presence of the defendant, the court shall find that it will be in the interest of justice that judgment be pronounced in his absence; ...””
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.