People v. McFarlane’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer (1947), 45 Cal. 2d 171 - In Re Hess (1955)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 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 People v. Durrant · People v. Muhlner · People v. Gordon · People v. Bennett · People v. Gilmore
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A witness is allowed to refresh his memory respecting a fact, by anything written by himself, or under his direction, at the time when the fact occurred, or immediately thereafter, or at any other time when the fact was fresh in his memory, and he knew that the same was correctly stated in the writing. But in such case the writing must be produced, and may be seen by the adverse party, who may, if he choose, cross-examine the witness upon it, and may read it to the court or jury. So, also, a witness may testify from such a writing, though he retain no recollection of the particular faets, but such evidence must be received with caution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. De Leon v. Cortes““The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had. All the testimony must be produced anew, and the former verdict cannot be used or referred to either in evidence or in argument, or be pleaded in bar of any conviction which might have been had under the information.” %”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and it is immaterial how the murder is perpetrated.”
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.