30 Cal. 3d 290 - People v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 466 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 498 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 1199 - People v. Ochoa (1993), 5 Cal. 4th 561 - Williams v. Garcetti (1993)
16 federal appellate · 466 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 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno · 9 Cal. 3d 156 - People v. Lawler · People v. Washington · People v. Phillips · 24 Cal. 3d 890 - Taylor v. Superior Court
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 498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] finding of implied malice depends upon a determination that the defendant actually appreciated the risk involved, i.e., a subjective standard. [Citation.]”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“an act, the natural consequences of which are dangerous to life.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rule does not apply ... unless `each element of the "general”
5 later decisions 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.