People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2007
8 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 People v. Newland · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · 55 Cal. 2d 27 - People v. Sweeney · 45 Cal. 2d 171 - In Re Hess · 48 Cal. 2d 394 - People v. Marshall
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Glasco, defendant and [the victim] became involved in an argument; . . . Glasco grabbed [the victim] by the pants and a struggle involving all three persons ensued; while Glasco and defendant were 'scuffling' with [the victim] both of them were trying to get their hands into [the victim's] pocket; in the struggle [the victim's] wallet fell to the street and his pants were torn off of him; Glasco picked up the wallet and pants and, accompanied by defendant, carried them to the rear of a nearby hotel. Shortly thereafter the police arrived. . . . The back pockets of the pants had been torn down and the wallet was empty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even though Glasco picked them up from the street; clearly it was because of the conduct of defendant and Glasco in scuffling with [the victim] . . . that the wallet and the pants fell to the street where Glasco immediately took possession of them. . . .”
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.