People v. Estorga’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 1046 - People v. Bittaker (1989), 53 Cal. 2d 843 - People v. Love (1960)
44 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. O'Bryan · People v. Fleming · People v. Edwards · 88 Cal. App. 558 - People v. Edenburg · 79 Cal. App. 488 - People v. Riordan
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is one of those passed by the legislature on the recommendation of the commission for the reform of criminal procedure created by the legislature in 1925, the purpose of the enactment, of course, being to expedite the trial of criminal causes, and to correct the abuse which has grown up in this jurisdiction, through tedious and unnecessary examination of prospective jurors in criminal cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Harrington““. . . The purpose of the statute, however, was not to bring about expedition by depriving either the People, or defendants charged with the commission of offenses, of the right of a reasonable examination of prospective jurors, . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not so much for the purpose of laying the basis of challenges for cause as to pave the way for possible peremptory challenges....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.