People v. Bemis’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle (1972), People v. Carpenter (1997)
8 federal appellate · 77 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. Yeager · People v. Dail · People v. Thomas · 29 Cal. 2d 87 - People v. Koenig
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`No other class of testimony affords such temptations or opportunities for unscrupulous witnesses to torture the facts or commit open perjury, as it is often impossible to contradict their testimony at all, or at least by any other witness than the party himself.' (2 Jones, Commentaries on the Law of Evidence, 620.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Levi v. State · Alexander v. State“‘ ‘. . . Section 2061 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that the jury are ‘to be instructed by the court on all proper occasions: 4. That the testimony of an accomplice ought to be viewed with distrust, and the evidence of the oral admissions of a party with caution, ’ and it is now settled that it is error for the trial court not to give such instructions in proper cases.””
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.