Self v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Kogan v. People (1988), Howe v. People (1972)
26 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 Memorial Trusts, Inc. v. Berry · People v. Heckard · Hernandez v. People · Williams v. People · Dekelt v. People
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accessory after the fact is a person who, after a full knowledge that a crime has been committed, conceals it from the magistrate, or harbors and protects the person charged with or found guilty of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Pratt
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.