21 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
203 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Kwikset Corp. v. Superior Court (2011), 21 Cal. 4th 815 - Vandenberg v. Superior Court (1999)
203 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 45 Cal. 3d 727 - Lungren v. Deukmejian · 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) · 14 Cal. 4th 605 - People v. Gardeley · Select Base Materials, Inc. v. Board of Equalization
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compelled by necessity and supported by firm evidence of the drafters' true intent”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Buchanan · People v. Dunn“whether the drafters, voters or legislators consciously considered all the effects and interrelationships of the provisions they wrote and enacted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“and leave for the People and the Legislature the task of revising it as they deem wise.”
2 later decisions 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.