People v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably 22 Cal. 3d 584 - Hawkins v. Superior Court (1978), 15 Cal. 3d 248 - Johnson v. Superior Court (1975)
31 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n all future cases wherein a defendant is accused of a felony, the right to a preliminary examination shall exist.”
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.