People v. Pitmon’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott (1994), 38 Cal. 4th 1002 - People v. Hudson (2006)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 Stovall v. Denno · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Williams v. United States · 28 Cal. 3d 692 - California Teachers Ass'n v. San Diego Community College District · 11 Cal. 3d 738 - People v. Thornton
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a direct or implied threat of force, violence, danger, hardship or retribution sufficient to coerce a reasonable person of ordinary susceptibilities to (1) perform an act which otherwise would not have been performed or, (2) acquiesce in an act to which one otherwise would not have submitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“at the time of the offenses, [the victim] was eight years old, an age at which adults are commonly viewed as authority figures. The disparity in physical size between an eight-year-old and an adult also contributes to a youngster's sense of [her] relative physical vulnerability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The total circumstances, including the age of the victim, and [her] relationship to defendant are factors to be considered in appraising the existence of duress.”
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.