259 Cal. App. 2d 82 - People v. Deane’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2018
18 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 63 Cal. 2d 614 - People v. Grubb · 129 Cal. App. 300 - People v. Ferguson · People v. Mulherin · 15 Ala. App. 615 - Lovelady v. State · 36 Tex. Crim. 71 - Mills v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instrument ... of the kind commonly known as billy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to outlaw possession of the sometimes-useful object when the attendant circumstances, including the time, place, destination of the possessor, the alteration of the object from standard form, and other relevant facts indicated that the possessor would use the object for a dangerous, not harmless, purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (1966): `A band of metal with four finger holes that fits over the root knuckles of the hand, used for increasing the effect of a blow from the fist.'”
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.