People v. Deibert’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein (1958), 25 Cal. 3d 238 - Pryor v. Municipal Court (1979)
115 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 35 Cal. 2d 49 - Lorenson v. Superior Court · 20 Cal. 2d 885 - People v. Putnam · 30 Cal. 2d 676 - People v. Eggers · Orloff v. Los Angeles Turf Club, Inc. · People v. Klinkenberg
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of words of general meaning is the essence of our code system. Thus, in a sphere so vital to the community as the welfare of its youth, the words used in a statute designed to enable the Legislature to come to grips effectively with the problems of juvenile delinquency should be upheld where their frequent use in penal statutes gives assurance that they are understood by men of ordinary intelligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a statute contains a reasonably adequate disclosure of the legislative intent regarding an evil to be combatted in language giving fair notice of the practices to be avoided, a court will be slow to say that such a statute is too indefinite to be enforced. [15] The complexities of the social problems dealt with by the Legislature require that a practical construction be given to the language employed by the draftsmen of legislation lest their purposes be too easily nullified by overrefined inquiries into the meanings of words. [16] `Reasonable certainty, in view of the conditions, is all that is required, and liberal effect is always to be given to the legislative intent when possible.' [Citation.] The use of words of general meaning is the essence of our code system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"While a judge is not bound to instruct on the history, object, or purpose of a law, it is proper to add to the knowledge of the jury on the subject at hand, as an aid to their deliberations, a correct statement of the purpose of such law in explanation of the instructions which follow. See People v. Calkins, 48 Cal. App.2d 33, 36 , [ 119 P.2d 142 ]; 24 Cal.Jur. pp. 846-847." 117 Cal. App. at 422, 256 P.2d at 363 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dillon v. State
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.