People v. Madison’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 324 - People v. Price (1991), 65 Cal. 2d 650 - In re Wright (1967)
27 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 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Harriett · State v. Moxley · 115 Cal. App. 505 - People v. McClain · People v. Post · 96 Cal. App. 215 - People v. Williams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we cannot give sanction to the practice of exhibiting unnecessarily to the jury gory physical evidences of the crime which are calculated or likely to inflame the jury's deliberations, nevertheless we cannot say that the exhibition during the trial of the bed or bedding [in which deceased was slain] ... necessarily was beyond propriety or had that effect. The questions whether the exhibit should remain and was needed to substantiate and illustrate the expert and other testimony as to the shots fired and whether it would tend to inflame the jury to the prejudice of the defendant, were questions addressed in the first instance to the discretion of the trial court”
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.