People v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2015
22 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 59 Cal. 2d 650 - In Re Zorn · People v. Belanger · In re Koehne · 18 Cal. App. 3d 592 - People v. Olson · 64 Cal. App. 3d 297 - People v. Perez
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be characterized as a `public place,' i.e., `common to all or many; general; open to common use.' ( In re Zorn, supra, 59 Cal.2d 650, 652 , 30 Cal.Rptr. 811 , 381 P.2d 635 .) In contrast to Olson , the fence, gate and dogs all provided challenge to public access. [The defendant] may have been found intoxicated in a place exposed to public view but that, in and of itself, is not a violation of section 647, subdivision (f).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As to the area outside in the front of [the] house, whether it be the driveway, lawn or front porch, it was a public place within the meaning of section 647, subdivision (f).... Inasmuch as defendant, a complete stranger to [the owner], was able to walk through the outside area of her home to the front door without challenge, it can hardly be denied that the area is open to `common' or `general use.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was located in his own front yard surrounded by a three-and-a-half-foot-high fence with a gate which was unlocked”
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.