21 Cal. App. 3d 408 - People v. Gavin’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 116 Cal. App. 3d 212 - People v. Madden (1981), 147 Cal. App. 3d 458 - People v. Deletto (1983)
29 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 Chimel v. California · Harris v. United States · People v. Marshall · 1 Cal. 3d 314 - Duke v. Superior Court · 1 Cal. 3d 404 - People v. McGrew
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The simple and proper solution would have been for the court to tell the jury directly that the People's evidence had been offered to prove that defendant unlawfully possessed drugs on October 24 and 25, 1969; and defendant was not charged with possession on any other date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he [trial] court's failure to clear up the jury's confusion regarding the September 27 `possession' was fundamentally unfair to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[s]omebody who would give dope to kids shouldn't be allowed to be out on the street' and she `wanted something to be done.'”
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.