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← 130 CALAPP2D 616 - People v. Pechar

People v. Pechar’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
1
states following
June 1976
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1976 · most notably People v. Holmes (1960), People v. Walker (1959)

5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions

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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 98 Cal. App. 702 - People v. Garcia · People v. Washington · People v. Metropolitan Surety Co. · 100 Cal. App. 600 - People v. Spinato · 99 Cal. App. 123 - People v. Wilkerson

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A trial by jury may be waived in all criminal cases, by the consent of both parties, expressed in open court by the defendant and his counsel * * *.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 5 Cal. App. 3d 540 - People v. Mosqueda · Hughes v. Heinze
  2. “The right to trial by jury in a criminal case is a sacred one and accordingly the method of waiver provided in the constitution must be strictly followed. For this reason `it is necessary that the defendant personally express in open court that he consents to a waiver of a trial by jury.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hughes v. Heinze
  3. “This has been construed repeatedly to require an express as distinguished from an implied consent to the waiver by the defendant personally, as well as by his counsel.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hughes v. Heinze

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.