18 Cal. 3d 687 - Davis v. Dennis B.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 51 Cal. 3d 335 - Lucido v. Superior Court (1990), 25 Cal. 3d 91 - People v. Kathy P. (1979)
2 federal appellate · 182 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 Blockburger v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Breed v. Jones · 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · 63 Cal. 2d 822 - Kellett v. Superior Court
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he state’s substantial interest in maintaining the summary nature of minor motor vehicle violation proceedings would be impaired by requiring the prosecution to ascertain for each infraction the possibility of further criminal proceedings. The chief reason for classifying some prohibited acts as infractions is to facilitate their swift disposition____ Unconstrained by the more stringent procedural requirements of a major criminal trial, municipal courts and prosecutors are free to develop innovative procedures to expedite traffic cases____ It is obvious that many innovations in court procedures would be jeopardized if district attorneys were charged with the responsibility of combing through 3 million infractions each year to find those few that might additionally involve more serious offenses.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“undeniable state interest in prosecuting serious misdemeanors and felonies”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the prosecution is or should be aware of more than one offense in which the same act or course of conduct plays a significant part, all such offenses must be prosecuted in a single proceeding unless joinder is prohibited or severance permitted for good cause. Failure to unite all such offenses will result in a bar to subsequent prosecution of any offense omitted if the initial proceedings culminate in either acquittal or conviction and sentence.”
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.