People v. Belanger’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 44 Cal. 4th 636 - People v. Cruz (2008), 3 Cal. App. 3d 146 - People v. Kelley (1969)
44 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 People v. Robinson · 59 Cal. 2d 650 - In Re Zorn · Mardis v. Superior Court · In re Koehne · Hackney v. Commonwealth
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is found in any public place under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, controlled substance, toluene, or any combination of any intoxicating liquor, drug, controlled substance, or toluene, in a condition that he or she is unable to exercise care for his or her own safety or the safety of others, or by reason of his or her being under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, controlled substance ... interferes with or obstructs or prevents the free use of any street, sidewalk, or other public way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Common to all or many; general; ... Open to common, or general use, participation, enjoyment, etc.; ... a public place ...' [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in any public place or in any place open to the public.”
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.