People v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1960
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nicholl v. Koster · Fleming v. Hance · Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. Payne
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a construction is to be avoided in favor of one reasonably tenable and giving the provisions a valid effect. Such a [construction] is that herein * * * suggested, i. e., that they [the charter provisions] are definitive and declaratory of the duties of the city attorney but are not limitations on the constitutional power of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no suggestion in the statute above quoted from [California Penal Code § 849], that the complaint must be drafted or approved or `issued' by any certain person or particular officer — the sole exaction is that `a complaint stating the charge against the person, must be laid before such magistrate.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“without unnecessary delay, * * * before the nearest or most accessible magistrate in the county”
1 later decision 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.