39 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Ruggles’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 23 Cal. 4th 824 - People v. Camacho (2000), 4 Cal. 5th 658 - People v. Buza (2018)
47 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 Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Ross · United States v. Chadwick · Arkansas v. Sanders · Robbins v. California
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather than await more definitive guidance [from the United States Supreme Court], we turn to article I, section 13 of the California Constitution”
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.