People v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014
20 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 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson · 53 Cal. 2d 322 - People v. Wade · 2 Cal. 3d 362 - People v. Terry · People v. Wells · People v. Haston
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This case is another in a long series in which a defendant challenges the admission of a prior criminal act committed by him and the People seek to justify its admission by demonstrating that the prior act is relevant to prove something other than the defendant's general propensity to commit crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court must also determine that its probative value outweighs its prejudicial effect.”
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.