39 Cal. 3d 836 - People v. Weidert’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 367 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 1 - Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (1994), 43 Cal. 3d 1002 - People v. Woodhead (1987)
3 federal appellate · 367 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Weaver v. Graham · Marks v. United States · Beck v. Alabama
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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he enacting body is deemed to be aware of existing laws and judicial constructions in effect at the time legislation is enacted. [Citation.] This principle applies to legislation enacted by initiative. [Citation.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'whatever may be thought of the wisdom, expediency, or policy of the act.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n order adjudging a minor to be a ward of the juvenile court shall not be deemed a conviction of a crime for any purpose, nor shall a proceeding in the juvenile court be deemed a criminal proceeding.”
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.