People v. Abair’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Baird v. Koerner (1960), People v. Walker (1959)
8 federal appellate · 31 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 25 Cal. 2d 573 - People v. Lima · Estate of Dupont · 72 Cal. App. 2d 75 - People v. Holman · Bauer v. Garrett · 21 Cal. App. 2d 18 - Croce v. Superior Court
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is argued that because the conversation was held in the presence of the appellant [Abair] and his wife, the privilege was waived. However, all four of the parties present at the conversation were charged with violation of the narcotics laws arising out of the sale of marijuana to Williams on January 10th, and the conversation was directed in some degree to the participation therein by the four persons present. Attorney Hervey at the time indicated that he could represent all four of the parties present and under such circumstances, we conclude their communications to him, as far as concerns strangers, were privileged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Kor“he wanted time to secure new counsel. Under the circumstances, the waiver was a valid one and appellant’s rights were not infringed. Appellant’s last major contention is that the two seamen were accomplices under the law, and that the jury should have been instructed that their testimony had to be corroborated. By section 1111 of the Penal Code an accomplice is defined ‘ ‘ as one who is liable to prosecution for the identical offense charged against the defendant on trial in the cause in which the testimony of the accomplice is given.”
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.