People v. Ralph’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch (1972), 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer (1947)
76 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 In Re Lee · In Re Herrera · 3 Cal. 2d 441 - People v. McNabb · Ex parte Rosenheim · 45 Cal. App. 520 - People v. Velarde
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.
“the defendant is entitled to the benefit of every reasonable doubt, whether it arise out of a question of fact, or as to the true interpretation of words or the construction of language used in a statute.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Beamer · In Re McVickers“When language which is reasonably susceptible of two constructions is used in a penal law ordinarily that construction which is more favorable to the offender will be adopted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Murdock · In Re Bandmann“the indeterminate sentence law and the Youth Authority Act should be construed and applied to work together as complementary parts of a more enlightened penal system. ( People v. Ralph, 24 Cal.2d 575, 580 .)”
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.