15 Cal. 3d 540 - People v. Rojas’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 730 - People v. Rodriguez (1986), 31 Cal. 3d 503 - Stone v. Superior Court (1982)
1 federal appellate · 131 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 55 Cal. 2d 27 - People v. Sweeney · American Tobacco Co. v. Green · 2 Cal. 3d 707 - Curry v. Superior Court · 66 Cal. 2d 459 - People v. Griffin · Chicago Title Insurance v. Great Western Financial Corp.
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ead or unable to attend or to testify at the hearing because of then existing physical or mental illness or infirmity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defect of personality or weakness of the will.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such a legal necessity exists if, at the conclusion of such time as the court deems proper, it satisfactorily appears to the court that there is no reasonable probability that the jury can resolve its difference and render a verdict. Under these circumstances the court may properly discharge the jury and reset for trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.