People v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably 26 Cal. 3d 233 - People v. Cruz (1980), 11 Cal. 4th 416 - People v. Kobrin (1995)
35 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 40 Cal. 2d 876 - People v. Daugherty · 55 Cal. 2d 88 - People v. Robillard · People v. Hall · 41 Cal. 2d 419 - Peters v. City & County of San Francisco · 63 Cal. 2d 805 - People v. Mitchell
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The busy business world of today inevitably spawns informality in the performance of ceremonial functions, particularly those which are (at least in some respects) the vestiges of a more ritualistic era. We look, modernly, to substance more than form. In the field of law into which this case falls the manifested intent with which an act is done should weigh more heavily than the observance of punctiliousness in its ceremonial aspects. Symbolism should not be confused with solemnization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walker
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.