108 Cal. App. 721 - People v. Sheffield’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 953 - People v. Tewksbury (1976), People v. Kiihoa (1960)
32 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. Coffey · 34 Cal. App. 459 - People v. Edgar · People v. MacDonald · People v. Soeder · 103 Cal. App. 624 - People v. Keyes
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'“The law is well settled that instructions given to a jury must be adapted to- the evidence and circumstances of the case on trial. To give instructions, even though they contain a correct statement of abstract legal principles, which are prejudicial will warrant a reversal of a judgment of conviction, and constitutes error. See People v. Savinovich, 59 Cal. App. 240 , 210 P. 526 , involving a prosecution for arson, yet quite parallel to- the case at bar.””
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.