People v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1972 · most notably 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein (1958), 166 Cal. App. 2d 334 - People v. Hurlburt (1958)
34 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. Newland · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · 21 Cal. 2d 690 - People v. Huston · 20 Cal. 2d 885 - People v. Putnam · 28 Cal. 2d 699 - People v. Simmons
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . We understand that an appellate court can reject the positive testimony of a witness only when that testimony is ‘inherently improbable. ’ It is not sufficient that the testimony may disclose circumstances which are unusual. Where the testimony is such that within the knowledge of reasonable men it cannot be true the appellate court might assume that knowledge and hold the testimony legally insufficient, but to do so the court must act on what is equivalent to judicial notice.” {People v. Wilder, 151 Cal.App.2d 698 at 703 [ 312 P.2d 425 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Norman
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.