21 Cal. 3d 749 - People v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 514 - People v. Tanner (1979), 30 Cal. 3d 1 - Landrum v. Superior Court (1981)
128 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 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · 13 Cal. 3d 937 - People v. Orin · 69 Cal. 2d 491 - People v. Superior Court · 9 Cal. 3d 662 - People v. Uhlemann · 18 Cal. 2d 146 - Jaffe v. Stone
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may, either of its own motion or upon the application of the prosecuting attorney, and in furtherance of justice, order an action to be dismissed. The reasons of the dismissal must be set forth in an order entered upon the minutes. No dismissal shall be made for any cause which would be ground of demurrer to the accusatory pleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... to concede the existence of an `inherent power' [to dismiss at prosecutorial request] without any statutory foundation and yet deny the magistrate a power to dismiss in furtherance of justice as provided by the Legislature is a patent anomaly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ur sole concern now is the exact meaning of `court.' ... because the authority conferred by section 1385 extends only to a court.”
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.