People v. Kerrick’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1998 · most notably Schmuck v. United States (1989), 19 Cal. 4th 108 - People v. Birks (1998)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 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. Devlin · People v. Bentley · Tilden v. Saucelito Land & Ferry Co.
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.
“To be 'necessarily included' in the offense charged, the lesser offense must not only be part of the greater in fact, but it must be embraced within the legal definition of the greater as a part thereof.”
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.