38 Cal. 4th 1002 - People v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 44 Cal. 4th 876 - Miklosy v. Regents of the University of California (2008), 49 Cal. 4th 405 - People v. Williams (2010)
3 federal appellate · 148 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 20 Cal. 4th 936 - People v. Smithey · 17 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Loeun · Murillo v. Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. · 49 Cal. 3d 200 - People v. Andrews · 11 Cal. 4th 568 - People v. Estrada
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Generally, a party may not complain on appeal that an instruction correct in law and responsive to the evidence was too general or incomplete unless the party has requested appropriate clarifying or amplifying language.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“interpretations that render statutory terms meaningless as surplusage are to be avoided”
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.