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← 143 Cal. 128 - People v. Devlin

People v. Devlin’s Empirical Analysis

1904

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
4
states following
June 1994
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 105 - People v. Hill (1967), 7 Cal. 4th 1027 - People v. Montoya (1994)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 People v. McDaniels · Gordon v. State · Wilson v. State · People v. Garnett · People v. Curtis

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.

  1. ““If in the night a man breaks and enters a dwelling-house to steal therein and steals, he may be punished for two offenses or one at the election of the prosecuting power. ...” Bishop’s New Criminal Law, vol. 1, see. 1062.”
    2 later decisions 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.