22 Cal. 3d 12 - People v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 34 Cal. 3d 335 - People v. Belmontes (1983), 4 Cal. 4th 893 - Sherwin-Williams Co. v. City of Los Angeles (1993)
8 federal appellate · 137 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno · 13 Cal. 3d 263 - Bozung v. Local Agency Formation Commission · 18 Cal. 3d 479 - Bowland v. Municipal Court · 6 Cal. 3d 28 - People v. Satchell · People v. Holt
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, when a member of one of the affected classes is in imminent peril of great bodily harm or reasonably believes himself or others to be in such danger, and without preconceived design on his part a firearm is made available to him, his temporary possession of that weapon for a period no longer than that in which the necessity or apparent necessity to use it in self-defense does not violate section 12021.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the case of a felon defending himself alone, such alternatives may include retreat where other persons would not be required to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Accepted principles of statutory construction disfavor repeal by implication....”
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.