People v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 51 Cal. 3d 294 - People v. Jones (1990), 53 Cal. 3d 334 - People v. Jennings (1991)
96 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 Chapman v. State of California · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope · 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel · People v. Daniels
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]eparate acts may also result in but one crime if they occur within a relatively short time span...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris · State v. Weaver“Defendant is charged in [Count_of] the information with the commission of the crime of_, a violation of section _of the [Montana] Code, on or about a period of time between _and_. [¶] In order to find the defendant guilty, it is necessary for the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the commission of a specific act [or acts] constituting said crime within the period alleged. [¶] And, in order to find the defendant guilty, you must unanimously agree upon the commission of the same specific act [or acts] constituting said crime within the period alleged. [¶] It is not necessary that the particular act or acts committed so agreed upon be stated in the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Weaver“when the accusatory pleading charges a single criminal act and the evidence shows more than one such unlawful act, either the prosecution must select the specific act relied upon to prove the charge or the jury must be instructed ... that it must unanimously agree beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant committed the same specific criminal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Weaver
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.