In Re Feiock’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2019
14 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Engle v. Isaac · Patterson v. New York · Palmer v. Hoffman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contemner is the person in the best position to know whether inability to pay is even a consideration in the proceeding and also has the best access to evidence on the issue, particularly in cases of self-employment. Considerations of policy and convenience have led courts to sanction placement of the burden of establishing a defense on defendants under similar circumstances. ( People v. Babbitt [(1988)] 45 Cal.3d 660, 693 [ 248 Cal. Rptr. 69 , 755 P.2d 253 ] [unconsciousness]; People v. Vogel (1956) 46 Cal.2d 798, 803 [ 299 P.2d 850 ] [good faith marriage in bigamy prosecution]; People v. Wells (1938) 10 Cal.2d 610, 617 [ 76 P.2d 493 ] [mitigation in homicide prosecution]; People v. Yoshimura (1979) 91 Cal. App.3d 609, 626 [ 154 Cal. Rptr. 314 ] [permit for otherwise unlawful articles]; People v. Condley (1977) 69 Cal. App.3d 999, 1013 [ 138 Cal. Rptr. 515 ] [escape due to necessity].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the most conservative analysis, that provided under the federal Constitution,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“merely to raise the issue of his ability to pay”
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.