People v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently July 1975 · most notably 14 Cal. 3d 864 - People v. Rincon-Pineda (1975), 66 Cal. 2d 390 - People v. Merriam (1967)
93 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. Benson · People v. Anthony · 24 Cal. App. 440 - People v. Scott · Bollinger v. Bollinger · 126 Cal. App. 623 - People v. Nolan
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the objection ... to such an instruction, that it contains 'statements of fact, not of law,' would appear to have spent much of its force in view of the recent amendment to section 19 of article VI of the Constitution authorizing a trial court to comment on the facts. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Dail“such a charge is easily made and difficult to disprove for which reason the testimony of the prosecuting witness should be examined with caution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Dail
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.