People v. Peterman’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably 59 Cal. 2d 855 - People v. Bowley (1963), 174 Cal. App. 2d 119 - People v. Otis (1959)
28 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 83 Cal. App. 2d 272 - People v. Cassandras · 52 Cal. App. 2d 685 - People v. Battilana
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Where a violation of said section 288a is committed without the consent of the prosecuting witness, it is not necessary that the testimony of such witness be corroborated. . . . A person who participates in an act in violation of said section solely because such person has been threatened with, and is in fear of, great bodily harm, is not an accomplice. (People v. Battilana, supra [ 52 Cal.App.2d 685, 695 ].)” However, in the Peterman case defendant accomplished rape and fellatio by pushing her into the back seat of his car and threatening to kill her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Ellis
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.