People v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1970
10 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. Lee · 10 Cal. App. 67 - People v. Sykes · Freeman v. State · 92 Cal. App. 417 - People v. Ray
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall be unlawful for any person . . . who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor ... to drive a vehicle on any public highway within this state. “Any person violating the provisions of this section shall upon conviction be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ninety days nor more than one year or by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one year nor more than three years, or by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200), nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), and upon every verdict of ‘guilty’ under this section, the jury shall recommend the punishment and the court in imposing sentence shall have.no authority to impose a sentence greater than that recommended by the jury.””
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.