139 Cal. App. 2d 810 - In Re Devlin’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably People v. Holt (1997), People v. Hamilton (1963)
38 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. Howard · 14 Cal. App. 576 - People v. Ruef · 7 Cal. App. 330 - People v. Schmitz · 100 Cal. App. 18 - People v. Young
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even in the absence of statute the trial court possesses the powers to dismiss a juror for ‘good cause.’ The general rule is stated as follows in 38 A.L.R. 706 : “ ‘ * * * the general modern rule is that the court may discharge a juror without working an acquittal on the defendant, in any case where the ends of justice, under the circumstances, would otherwise be defeated * * *.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a juror may be discharged, without jeopardy attaching, if `good cause' for the discharge exists.”
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.