103 Cal. App. 2d 326 - People v. Babb’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1990 · most notably 48 Cal. 2d 394 - People v. Marshall (1957), 25 Cal. 3d 238 - Pryor v. Municipal Court (1979)
36 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 Callan v. Wilson · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · Central Lumber Company v. State of South Dakota · 64 Cal. App. 2d 592 - People v. Krupa · People v. Craig
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every lewd or dissolute person ... [i]s a vagrant, and is punishable by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every idle, or lewd, or dissolute person, or associate of known thieves; ... is punishable....”
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.