35 Cal. 3d 547 - People v. Beeman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 686 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 881 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably 43 Cal. 3d 1104 - People v. Anderson (1987), California v. Roy (1996)
114 federal appellate · 686 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 Chapman v. State of California · Morissette v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno
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 881 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he weight of authority and sound law require proof that an aider and abettor act with knowledge of the criminal purpose of the perpetrator and with an intent or purpose either of committing, or of encouraging or facilitating commission of, the offense.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tran v. Henry · Perez v. Kw Prunty“the intent or purpose of committing, encouraging, or facilitating the commission of the offense.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“with knowledge of the unlawful purpose of the perpetrator of the crime, ... aids, promotes, encourages or instigates by act or advice the commission of such crime.”
6 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.