People v. Donelson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1984
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stull v. People · People v. Urso · Lowe v. People · Goodell v. People
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) A person commits theft of rental property if he: . . . . (b) Having lawfully obtained possession for temporary use of the personal property of another which is available only for hire knowingly fails to reveal the whereabouts of or to return said property to the owner thereof or his representative or to the person from whom he has received it within seventy-two hours after the time at which he agreed to return it. " (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Moody
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.