39 Cal. 3d 107 - People v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 495 - People v. Kelly (1992), People v. Prettyman (1996)
149 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 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno · People v. Green · 32 Cal. 3d 307 - People v. Wickersham · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · Central Railroad v. Pennsylvania
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne who acts as a go-between or agent of either the buyer or seller clearly may be found guilty of furnishing as an aider and abettor to the seller.... However, because one who merely purchases drugs is not guilty of furnishing as an aider and abettor of the seller ... an equal partner in a copurchase cannot be found guilty of furnishing to his copurchaser on a theory that he aided and abetted the actual seller.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`An appellate court is not restricted to the remedies of affirming or reversing a judgment. Where the prejudicial error goes only to the degree of the offense for which the defendant was convicted, the appellate court may reduce the conviction to a lesser degree and affirm the judgment as modified, thereby obviating the necessity for a retrial. [Citations.]' [Citation.]”
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.