People v. . Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 1974 · most notably 19 Cal. 2d 319 - Greenberg v. Superior Court (1942), People v. . Sweeney (1914)
2 federal appellate · 70 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. . Glen · Livingston v. . Livingston · Becker v. . Koch · People v. . Johnson · Murphy v. . Loomis
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ does not in the opinion of the Court or magistrate understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received though not given under oath if in the opinion of the Court or magistrate such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence. But no person shall be held or convicted of an offense upon such testimony unsupported by other evidence; * *”
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.