23 Cal. 3d 697 - People v. Privitera’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 115 - People v. Gallego (1990), 27 Cal. 3d 123 - City of Santa Barbara v. Adamson (1980)
8 federal appellate · 110 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 545 · 21 U.S.C. § 355 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Olmstead v. United States
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing in this utterance suggests that Justice Brandéis thought an individual possessed these rights only as to sensible beliefs, valid thoughts, reasonable emotions, or well-founded sensations. I suggest he intended to include a great many foolish, unreasonable and even absurd ideas which do not conform, such as refusing medical treatment even at great risk.”
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.