31 Cal. 2d 43 - In Re Bramble’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably 42 Cal. 2d 621 - People v. Western Air Lines, Inc. (1954), 44 Cal. 2d 178 - Bompensiero v. Superior Court (1955)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 In Re McVickers · People v. Ralph · In Re Seeley · People v. Angelopoulus · Matter of Ruef
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“criminal statutes will not be built up 'by judicial grafting upon legislation. ... [I]t is also true that the defendant is entitled to the benefit of every reasonable doubt, whether it arise out of a question of fact, or as to the true interpretation of words or the construction of language used in a statute.' [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Bandmann“Any person who wilfully and maliciously sets fire to or burns or causes to be burned ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]rson is the willful and malicious burning of a building, with intent to destroy it.”
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.