People v. Pfeffer’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2006
6 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 Krause v. Rarity · Barkis v. Scott · 9 Cal. 2d 226 - Weber v. Pinyan · Kastel v. Stieber · 40 Cal. 2d 160 - People v. Costa
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Gross negligence has been repeatedly defined in the California cases as “the want of slight diligence,” “an entire failure to exercise care, or the exercise of so slight a degree of care as to justify the belief that there was an indifference to the things and welfare of others,” and “that want of care which would raise a presumption of the conscious indifference to consequences.” ’ ” People v. Costa, 40 Cal.2d 160 , 252 P.2d 1, 5 (1953).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson
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.