People v. Stangler’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer (1947), 59 Cal. 2d 722 - People v. Modesto (1963)
87 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. Benson · People v. Day
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [A]n appellate tribunal cannot disturb the findings of the triers of fact unless it be made clearly to appear that upon no hypothesis is there sufficient substantial evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, to support the conclusion reached in the lower court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Fisher“such a charge is easily made and difficult to disprove for which reason the testimony of the prosecuting witness should be examined with caution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Dail
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.