People v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably State v. Daymus (1961), 6 Cal. 3d 530 - People v. Poyet (1972)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 137 Cal. App. 349 - People v. Becker · People v. Landman · 67 Cal. App. 758 - People v. Wilkins · 106 Cal. App. 2d 176 - People v. Gaines · 85 Cal. App. 170 - In Re Scott
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, coining back to the particular charge in this case, the defendant Kenneth Hewitt is accused by an information duly filed in this court, of having committed the crime of Two Counts of Violation of Section 476a of the California Penal Code, a felony, alleged in said information to have been committed as follows: “Count I: The said Kenneth Hewitt, on or about the 25th day of May A.D., nineteen hundred and sixty, at and in said County of Stanislaus, State of California, and prior to the filing of this information, wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and with intent to defraud Coast Drug Company, 1539 McHenry Avenue, Modesto, did make, draw, utter and deliver to Coast Drug Company, 1539 McHenry Avenue, Modesto, a check in the amount of $50.00, for payment of money upon the bank of California, Riverbank [,] office, knowing at the time of drawing said check that he had not sufficient funds in or credit with said bank to meet the said check. “Count II: The said Kenneth Hewitt, on or about the 29th day of May, A.D., nineteen hundred and sixty, at and in said County of Stanislaus, State of California, and prior to the filing of this information, wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and with intent to defraud Coast Drug Company, 1539 McHenry Avenue, Modesto, [did make, draw, utter and deliver to Coast Drug Company, 1539 McHenry Avenue, Modesto,] a check in the amount of $50.00 for payment of money upon the Bank of California, Riverbank office, knowing at the time of drawing said check ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hewitt
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.