People v. Ahern’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
42
cited by 42 later decisions
1
states following
December 1967
most recently cited
42 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Dail · 98 Cal. App. 2d 1 - People v. Griffin · 25 Cal. 2d 341 - People v. Wilson · People v. Wallin · 17 Cal. 2d 778 - People v. Shaw
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the law that the testimony of an accomplice ought to be viewed with distrust. This does not mean that you may arbitrarily disregard such testimony, but you should give to it the weight to which you find it to be entitled after examining it with care and caution and in the light of all the evidence in the case.””
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.