People v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2009
22 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 Neal v. State of California · 58 Cal. 2d 748 - People v. McFarland · 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons · 65 Cal. 2d 650 - In re Wright · 58 Cal. 2d 229 - People v. Perez
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The flight of a person immediately after the commission of a crime, or after he is accused of a crime that has been committed, is not sufficient in itself to establish his guilt, but is a fact which, if proved, the jury may consider in deciding his guilt or innocence. The weight to which such circumstance is entitled is ,a matter for the jury to determine. “No further instruction on the subject of flight need be given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Roy
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.