People v. Sjosten’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 24 Cal. 3d 357 - People v. Zelinski (1979), State v. Bowman (1993)
48 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 · 63 Cal. 2d 779 - People v. Smith · 45 Cal. 2d 640 - People v. Brown · 57 Cal. 2d 602 - Bielicki v. Superior Court · People v. Sandoval
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ 1. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As to the delegation of her authority to another person [to make a citizen’s arrest], section 839 of the [California] Penal Code provides: “Any person making an arrest may orally summon as many persons as he deems necessary to aid him therein.” This statute impliedly authorizes the delegation of the physical act of taking an offender into custody. Frequently, as under the circumstances of this case, it is most prudent for a private citizen to summon a police officer to assist in making the arrest. [T]he authority of Officer Smith to make the arrest at the request of Mrs. Morales is well established. The fact that she did not physically confront appellant is not significant. It is sufficient that she directed the officer to make the arrest and observed him doing so from her window. We conclude that the appellant was lawfully detained on a citizen’s arrest....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sutherland“The person making the arrest must inform the person to be arrested of the intention to arrest him, of the cause of the arrest, and the authority to make it, except when the person to be arrested is actually engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, an offense, or is pursued immediately after its commission, or after an escape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bowman
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.