People v. Carmen’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 424 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 435 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974), 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel (1979)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 424 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 Stevenson v. United States · 27 Cal. 2d 164 - People v. Bender · 28 Cal. 2d 121 - People v. Valentine · 30 Cal. 2d 676 - People v. Eggers · 25 Cal. 2d 177 - People v. McCoy
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 435 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a defendant is entitled to instructions on his theory of the case as disclosed by the evidence, no matter how weak.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““You may find the defendant guilty of any offense, the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged, (or of an attempt to commit the offense,) if, in your judgment, the evidence supports such a verdict under my instructions. “To enable you to apply the foregoing instruction, if your findings of fact require you to do so, I instruct you that the offense of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, of which the defendant is charged in (Count 1) the information, necessarily include the crime (s) of assault (or simple assault.) ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““1. Voluntary—upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. “2c. Involuntary—in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection; provided that this subdivision shall not apply to acts committed in the driving of a vehicle; “3. In the driving of a vehicle. ...” (Pen. Code, §192.)”
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.