People v. Knights’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · 24 Cal. 3d 199 - People v. Pierce · 32 Cal. 3d 388 - Hasson v. Ford Motor Co. · 20 Cal. 3d 150 - People v. Honeycutt · People v. Martinez
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“work ... is best characterized as an extension of well-established techniques traditionally used by physical anthropologists”
2 later decisions 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.