People v. Brittain’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 709 - People v. Gauze (1975), 58 Cal. 2d 225 - People v. Deptula (1962)
44 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. Barry · State v. Watkins · State v. Green · State v. Carroll
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be an impeachment of the common sense of mankind to say that a thief who enters a store with intent to steal does so with the owner's consent or upon his invitation. It is true the thief must have clothes and food, and may enter a store to procure them; and if, after he enters, he changes his mind, and concludes to steal, and not purchase his supplies, it would be larceny. But if it be proven that he entered with intent to steal, the law will not, in the face of such proof, shield him from punishment as a burglar on the assumption that he has the consent and invitation of the proprietor to so enter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of TJE““Every person who enters any house, room, apartment, . . . with intent to commit grand or petit larceny or any felony is guilty of burglary. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Garrow
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.