12 Cal. 3d 699 - People v. Canfield’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 591 - Mitchell v. Superior Court (1984), 9 Cal. 4th 1196 - People v. Gionis (1995)
4 federal appellate · 59 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 Chapman v. State of California · Simmons v. United States · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · City & County of San Francisco v. Superior Court · United States v. Kahan
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Subject to Section 912 and except as otherwise provided in this article, the client, whether or not a party, has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between client and lawyer if the privilege is claimed by: “(a) The holder of the privilege; “(b) A person who is authorized to claim the privilege by the holder of the privilege; or “(c) The person who was the lawyer at the time of the confidential communication, but such person may not claim the privilege if there is no holder of the privilege in existence or if he is otherwise instructed by a person authorized to permit disclosure.””
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.