16 Cal. App. 3d 450 - Small v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 81 Cal. App. 3d 564 - Shea v. Board of Medical Examiners (1978), 10 Cal. 3d 29 - Pettit v. State Board of Education (1973)
42 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 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · 4 Cal. 3d 130 - Bixby v. Pierno · 1 Cal. 3d 214 - Morrison v. State Board of Education · 13 Cal. 2d 75 - Drummey v. State Board of Funeral Directors & Embalmers · Dare v. Board of Medical Examiners
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“guilt must be established to a reasonable certainty ... and cannot be based on surmise or conjecture, suspicion or theoretical conclusions, or uncorroborated hearsay.”
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.