People v. Green’s Empirical Analysis

1951

Citation profile

cited by 67 later decisions

states following

December 2012

most recently cited

67 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 152 - People v. Morris (1991), 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons (1958)

67 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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.

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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“It is a practice which seems to be approved in all jurisdictions, if the ends of justice will be thereby served, to extend immunity to one jointly charged with crime, upon condition that he testify fully and fairly as to his knowledge of the facts out of which the charge arose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Foster v. State · 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons
“"It is obvious that if the witness . . get[s] the impression from the Court that unless he told the same story to the Court as he did to the police, he would be executed, then his testimony was tainted beyond redemption and could not, in a legal sense, be weighed by the jury, because the witness was no longer a free agent and there was no standard by which his veracity could be tested or estimated. This is not merely a matter going to the credibility of the witness, but something fundamentally deeper, viz., that by the action of the Court itself the witness was fettered in his testimony and put in so dire a position that the value of his evidence was not capable of appraisement, the situation being reduced to this, essentially, that while at the outset he was adjured to give his evidence freely and fully, yet later on he was warned that if it was not the same as he had already told the police he would be executed. Such a warning defeated the first object of justice, because what the witness should from first to last have understood was that, at all hazards, he was to tell the truth then in the witness box, however false may have been what he had said before in the police station." Ibid. at 761.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Franklin v. State
“A miscarriage of justice was occasioned through the use by the State of testimony which, because of the condition upon which immunity depended, was impure, dubious and `tainted beyond redemption.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons

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