People v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974), 47 Cal. 2d 566 - People v. Riser (1956)
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to their admissibility, the declaration of deceased persons . . . stand upon the same footing as the testimony of a witness sworn in the case, and are governed by the same rules . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Basilio T.
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.