People v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson (1956), 59 Cal. 2d 503 - People v. Ketchel (1963)
31 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 Tiner v. State · Clements v. State · Smith v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court has, however, discretionary power over cross-examination which will be disturbed on appeal only in case of an abuse thereof. Thus the court may confine an examination within reasonable limits, and may curtail a cross-examination which is unduly protracted, frivolous, or which relates to matters which are irrelevant, admitted or have already teen fully covered. (People v. Whitehead, supra, page 48 [1-2] ; People v. Ormes, 88 Cal.App.2d 353, 358 [3] [ 198 P.2d 690 ] ; People v. Serpa, 67 Cal.App.2d 327, 332 [7] [ 154 P.2d 6 ] ; People v. Corlett, 67 Cal.App.2d 33, 46 [ 153 P.2d 595, 964 ] ; People v. Ashcraft, 138 Cal.App.2d 820, 827 [10-11] [ 292 P.2d 676 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rivers“When part of an act, declaration, conversation, or writing is given in evidence by one party, the whole on the same subject may be inquired into by the other; ... and when a detached act, declaration, conversation, or writing is given in evidence, any other act, declaration, conversation or writing, which is necessary to make it understood, may also be given in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when testimony has been introduced relative to an occurrence all parts of that occurrence, verbal as well as physical, are properly within the scope of the cross-examiner's probe.”
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.