25 Cal. 4th 1082 - People v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 28 Cal. 4th 107 - People v. Farnam (2002), 32 Cal. 4th 193 - People v. Posey (2004)
162 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 United States v. Olano · Davis v. United States · Abelleira v. District Court of Appeal · 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott · 1 Cal. 4th 324 - People v. Price
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]rom the perspective of a defendant, statutory enactments that provide for trial in a county that bears a reasonable relationship to an alleged criminal offense also operate as a restriction on the discretion of the prosecution to file charges in any locale within the state that it chooses, an option that, if available, would provide the prosecution with the considerable power to choose a setting that, for whatever reason, the prosecution views as favorable to its position or hostile or burdensome to the defendant's.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he terms `waiver' and `forfeiture' long have been used interchangeably. As the United States Supreme Court has explained, however, `[w]aiver is different from forfeiture. Whereas forfeiture is the failure to make the timely assertion of a right, waiver is the "intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Numerous decisions establish that the provisions of section 781 must be given a liberal interpretation to permit trial in a county where only preparatory acts have occurred. [Citations.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.