People v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably In Re Cregler (1961), 61 Cal. 2d 331 - Fort v. Civil Service Commission (1964)
63 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 Merrick v. N. W. Halsey & Co. · People v. Steelik · 76 Cal. App. 347 - In Re Oswald
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The act in question has for its obvious purpose the protection of the growers and producers of deciduous fruits in the state of California against the fraudulent conduct and acts of unconscionable persons who, representing themselves to be cash buyers, purchase and receive the delivery and ownership of their said products, and having done so, wilfully fail or refuse to pay for the same upon demand and in accordance with the terms and conditions of their purchase thereof. The statute in so providing in nowise interferes with the freedom of contracts and works no deprivation of either liberty or property when it undertakes to visit . severe penalties upon those who, thus representing themselves to be cash buyers of the grower’s or producer’s products, undertake to defraud such grower or producer out of the price and profit of his product with which he has thus been induced to part ownership and to rely upon the purchaser’s promise to pay upon demand. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well-settled law that the courts will not give their consideration to questions as to the constitutionality of a statute unless such consideration is necessary to the determination of a real and vital controversy between the litigants in the particular case before it. It is incumbent upon a party to an action or proceeding who assails a law invoked in the course thereof to show that the provisions of the statute thus assailed are applicable to him and that he is injuriously affected thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bocklett
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.