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37 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Lance W.’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

1,300
cited by 1,300 later decisions
5
cited 5 times by the Supreme Court
9
states following
July 2020
most recently cited

35 federal appellate · 1,221 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 1,300 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably California v. Greenwood (1988), 45 Cal. 3d 727 - Lungren v. Deukmejian (1988)

35 federal appellate · 1,221 state decisions

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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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States

Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Leon · Rakas v. Illinois · Illinois v. Gates

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 1,300 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In construing constitutional and statutory provisions, whether enacted by the Legislature or by initiative, the intent of the enacting body is the paramount consideration.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Prado v. Barr · 39 Cal. 3d 209 - Harry Carian Sales v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board
  2. “[t]he adopting body is presumed to be aware of existing laws and judicial construction thereof”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gonzalez v. City of Norwalk · 2 Cal. 5th 858 - People v. Gonzales
  3. “[R]elevant evidence shall not be excluded in any criminal proceeding, including pretrial and post conviction motions and hearings, or in any trial or hearing of a juvenile for a criminal offense, whether heard in juvenile or adult court.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 47 Cal. 3d 1047 - People v. Harris · 198 Cal. App. 3d 10 - People v. Adams

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.