People v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 458 - People v. Kemp (1961), 28 Cal. 2d 699 - People v. Simmons (1946)
2 federal appellate · 71 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. Vasquez · People v. Williams
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rule of absolute responsibility of a party for a homicide committed by his associates in furtherance of their common purpose to rob”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cavitt v. Cullen
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.