34 Cal. App. 344 - In Re Whittington’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 64 Cal. 2d 357 - In Re Patterson (1966), Jones v. Rayborn (1961)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Roberts v. Reilly · Arthur Appleyard v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · In re Hess · State ex rel. Burner v. Richter · Hackney v. Welsh
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . Not only may it be said that he is not a fugitive because he did not voluntarily leave that state, but because also the state of Texas voluntarily relinquished the jurisdiction of its courts over his person and waived its right to thereafter have him brought back from the California jurisdiction to answer for the same offense. In an argumentative way the case of In re Hess (Hess v. Grimes), 5 Kan. App. 763 , ( 48 Pac. 596 ), is authority for the conclusion last announced.” (p. 347.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Rhyne · Martin v. State
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.