People v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 870 - People v. Raley (1992), 22 Cal. 4th 1227 - In Re Lucero L. (2000)
40 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson · 55 Cal. 2d 27 - People v. Sweeney · 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons · 49 Cal. 2d 409 - People v. McCaughan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he spontaneity of the declarations lend credibility to the exclamations of a hearsay declarant who might be otherwise incompetent, due to minority or other valid reasons, to testify at trial.”
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.