People v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 3 Cal. 4th 41 - People v. Clark (1992), 9 Cal. 4th 879 - People v. Champion (1995)
48 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 2 Cal. 3d 118 - People v. Marsden · 19 Cal. 3d 121 - People v. Windham · 49 Cal. App. 3d 337 - People v. Calimee · People v. Barnett
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rape is never very funny and one-on-one rape is hardly a laughing matter. However, it is even more reprehensible when committed by two or more persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Polk“it is doubtful that many jurors will or have spent many hours in deep meditation over the difference between knowledge and intent.”
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.