35 Cal. 3d 629 - People v. Slaughter’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 29 Cal. 4th 228 - Cooley v. Superior Court (2003), 47 Cal. 4th 1050 - Lexin v. Superior Court (2010)
153 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 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle · 35 Cal. 3d 547 - People v. Beeman · People v. Washington
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`of ordinary caution or prudence would be led to believe and conscientiously entertain a strong suspicion'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`if the magistrate forms a personal opinion regarding the guilt or innocence of the accused, that opinion is of no legal significance whatever in view of the limited nature of the proceedings.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“some rational ground for assuming the possibility that an offense has been committed and the accused is guilty of it.”
2 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.