People v. Bill’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably 28 Cal. 4th 457 - People v. Mower (2002), People v. Roberts (1953)
41 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 Morrison v. People of State of California · People v. Scofield · Ex Parte Hornef · 118 Cal. App. 593 - People v. Kinsley · 81 Cal. App. 577 - 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the accused person is unlawfully possessed of a narcotic drug, it follows that he does not hold a physician's prescription therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Roberts
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.