People v. Sanson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 1979 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 807 - People v. Superior Court (1970), 173 Cal. App. 2d 367 - People v. Murphy (1959)
66 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. Blodgett · People v. West · 150 Cal. App. 2d 197 - People v. Hood · 144 Cal. App. 2d 294 - People v. Soto · Vartanian v. Croll
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No such movements appear to have been made by any of [the defendants] during the previous period the police had their car under surveillance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This signal revealed to the defendants that police officers were at hand and desired to question them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“looked under the seat to see what they had placed there.”
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.