22 Cal. 3d 181 - People v. Atchison’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 36 Cal. 3d 638 - People v. Olsen (1984), 32 Cal. 3d 590 - People v. Snyder (1982)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 61 Cal. 2d 529 - People v. Hernandez · 270 Cal. App. 2d 492 - People v. Toliver · People v. Ratz · People v. Reznick · 80 Cal. App. 3d 829 - People v. Gutierrez
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons are capable of committing crimes except those belonging to the following classes: ... [¶] Three Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged under an ignorance or mistake of fact, which disproves any criminal intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In every crime or public offense there must exist a union, or joint operation of act and intent, or criminal negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.