People v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada (1965), 62 Cal. 2d 226 - People v. Shipman (1965)
28 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. Adamson · People v. Gennaitte · 135 Cal. App. 2d 65 - People v. Bible · 28 Cal. 2d 264 - In Re De La Roi · People v. Stinchcomb
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant, therefore, has the burden of overcoming the presumption in favor of the validity of the judgment by establishing through a preponderance of strong and convincing evidence [citations] that he was deprived of substantial legal rights by extrinsic causes [citations].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Was defendant deprived of constitutional rights in that he was denied the aid of counsel in this proceeding and was not present or represented at the hearing? No.”
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.