People v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““You are instructed that no specific purpose or intent is an essential element of the offense charged in the information.” ‘‘ Every person who has been convicted of a felony and who owns or has in his possession or under his custody or control any pistol, revolver or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person, is guilty of a crime.” “Within the meaning of the law, a person is in possession of a weapon when it is under his dominion and control and to his knowledge either is carried on his person or is in his presence and custody, or, if not on his person or in his presence, the possession thereof is immediate, accessible, and exclusive to him. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 214 Cal. App. 2d 455 - People v. Vanderburg