People v. Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 432 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 447 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 19 Cal. 4th 26 - Quelimane Co. v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co. (1998), California Teachers Ass'n v. Governing Board of Rialto Unified School District (1997)
7 federal appellate · 432 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 45 Cal. 3d 727 - Lungren v. Deukmejian · 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · 43 Cal. 3d 1002 - People v. Woodhead · 47 Cal. 3d 456 - Hutnick v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · 152 Cal. App. 3d 720 - In-Home Supportive Services v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
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 447 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Burglary of an inha bited dwelling house or trailer coach as defined by the Vehicle Code, or inhabited portion of any other building.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is well established that reports of legislative committees and commissions are part of a statute's legislative history and may be considered when the meaning of a statute is uncertain”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“currently being used for dwelling purposes, whether occupied or not.”
2 later decisions 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.