People v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green (1980), 39 Cal. 2d 719 - People v. Kirkes (1952)
74 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. Castro · People v. Kramer · People v. Williams · 3 Cal. App. 1 - People v. Morris · People v. Derwae
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . But an affront to counsel, or a wounding of his feelings, although unjustified, will not furnish a basis for appellate review, unless the rights of the defendant are in some way prejudiced, and it cannot be said that the characterization of counsel’s conduct as ‘ungentlemanly and unprofessional’ was calculated to work substantial injury to the case of the defense. (People v. Oliveria, 127 Cal. 376 [ 59 P. 772 ]; People v. Modina, 146 Cal. 142 [ 79 P. 842 ] ; People v. Casselman, 10 Cal.App. 234 [ 101 P. 693 ].)””
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.