People v. Fenninger’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2001
19 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. Bennett · United States v. Prince · State v. Osburn · United States v. Masullo · United States v. Pierce
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legal theory behind this defense is that a defendant, as an exclusive agent for the buyer, is a principal in or a conspirator in the purchase rather than the sale of the contraband, and as such, the defendant, like the buyer, cannot be convicted of selling the narcotic, nor can he be convicted of conspiring to sell.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The jury was correctly instructed that if they found that defendant acted exclusively on behalf of the [Colorado Bureau of Investigation] agent, and not for the sellers, they would have to find him not guilty. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Smith
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.