People v. Bob’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 585 - People v. Cudjo (1993), 46 Cal. 3d 749 - People v. Coleman (1988)
34 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 28 Cal. 2d 699 - People v. Simmons · People v. Arnold · People v. Boggess · People v. Schafer · 25 Cal. 2d 593 - People v. Whitson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature of California has taken extraordinary precaution to safeguard the rights of those upon whom the death penalty is imposed ..., by providing for an automatic appeal ... and enjoining upon this court an examination of the record and the preparation of a formal opinion and decision from which it should appear that no miscarriage of justice has resulted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]echnicalities should be liberally viewed when urged against a defendant in a criminal case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Danielly
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.