In Re Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 27 Cal. 2d 220 - People v. Williams (1945), People v. Park (2013)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 In Re Rosencrantz · Doble v. Superior Court · In Re Rameriz · In Re Boatwright · People v. Coleman
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand, there is authority for the view that statutory nomenclature does not necessarily determine the grade or class of a crime. It has been said that it is the nature of the offense and the penalty which is imposed by the law that determines whether it is a misdemeanor or felony, and not the mere name which the legislature may attach to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A [California] crime which may be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, although the statute confers a discretion on the court to impose a mere county jail sentence, is deemed to be a felony, unless the court actually exercises that discretion by imposing only a fine or a jail sentence. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Wolfson
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.