People v. Lovato’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1984
14 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · People v. Ford · People v. Wells · 53 Cal. 2d 370 - People v. Banks
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is common knowledge that several million aliens are living in this country and that the vast majority are peaceful and law abiding. Undoubtedly, many are serving or have children serving in the armed forces. Consequently, to categorically hold that every alien who is intentionally in possession of a concealable weapon, regardless of the reason, is guilty of an offense inherently dangerous to human life . . . would manifestly lead to unjust and even absurd results. . . . [A] person does not . . . show a tendency toward crime simply because he is not a citizen of this country.”
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.