119 Cal. App. 2d 490 - People v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 1974 · most notably 65 Cal. 2d 650 - In re Wright (1967), 53 Cal. 2d 1 - People v. Benford (1959)
69 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 175 - People v. Knowles · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · People v. Roberts · People v. Logan · People v. Kehoe
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"By this section, it is indispensable in order to impose separate punishments that there be evidence of separate and divisible acts that are not incidental to each other. In determining this question the courts have refused to dissect the evidence minutely in an attempt to find separate offenses, but, on the contrary, have held that a broad transactional approach should be made."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not the entrapment of a criminal upon which the law frowns, but the seduction of innocent people into a criminal career by its officers is what is condemned and will not be tolerated. [10] Where an accused has a preexisting criminal intent, the fact that when solicited by a decoy he committed a crime raises no inference of unlawful entrapment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Braddock
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.