People v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Miller (1977), State v. Butler (1958)
47 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 28 Cal. 2d 699 - People v. Simmons · 31 Cal. 2d 469 - People v. Westek · Neufield v. United States · 14 Cal. 2d 693 - People v. Waller · 74 Cal. App. 2d 528 - People v. Richardson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We regard it as no undue extension of the robbery statute to bold it applicable to any servant or servants left in sole occupation of the premises or particular part thereof by the employer.””
2 later decisions 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.