People v. Capps’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2002
10 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 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · People v. Green · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · 22 Cal. 3d 865 - Clemmer v. Hartford Insurance Co. · 33 Cal. 3d 572 - People v. Fosselman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In the determination of a motion for a new trial, the verdict should be set aside if, in the opinion of the trial court, it is not supported by sufficient evidence; and this is equally true whether there be an absence of evidence or that the evidence received, in the individual judgment of the trial judge, is lacking in probative force to establish the proposition of fact to which it is addressed. This is the meaning of the terms "insufficiency of evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(Pen. Code, sec. 1181, subd. 6).' ( Estate of Bainbridge [(1915) 169 Cal. 166, 169-170 ( 146 P. 427 )].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(Code Civ. Proc., sec. 657, subd. 6) and”
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.