People v. Sambrano’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1964
22 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 People v. Durrant · People v. Connelly · People v. Phelan · People v. Mahatch · People v. Grill
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well established that, in the absence of bad faith, a witness who has sworn to the good reputation of an accused person for peace and quiet or for truth, honesty and integrity, may be asked on cross-examination whether he knows of and takes into consideration specific acts and conduct inconsistent with the reputation attributed to him, when such acts actually occurred or when the examining attorney, in good faith, believed that the defendant was guilty of them. People v. McKenna, 11 Cal.2d 327, 335 , 79 P.2d 1065 ; People v. Stevens, 5 Cal.2d 92, 99 , 53 P.2d 133 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riggle
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.