People v. Leyshon’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably 33 Cal. 2d 534 - In Re Horowitz (1949), 102 Cal. App. 2d 149 - People v. Kittrelle (1951)
45 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. Frank · People v. Smith · People v. Harrold · People v. Gosset · People v. Francis
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, with intent to defraud, ... falsely makes ... any ... will, ... or utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as true and genuine, ... [the forged will], knowing the same to be false ..., with intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud any person ... is guilty of forgery.”
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.