People v. Pustau’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably People v. Darcy (1943), 77 Cal. App. 2d 748 - People v. Agnew (1947)
29 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 74 Cal. App. 178 - People v. Follette · 4 Cal. App. 63 - People v. Chadwick · 118 Cal. App. 593 - People v. Kinsley · People v. Lem You · 70 Cal. App. 519 - People v. Kelly
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The statue respecting the quantum of evidence necessary in perjury cases will be satisfied, if there be the testimony of one witness to facts that are absolutely incompatible with the innocence of the accused, corroborated by circumstances which, of themselves and independently of such directly inculpatory evidence, tend, with a reasonable degree of certitude, to show that the accused is guilty as charged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scanlon · State v. Scanlon““The test o,f materiality is met when it can be said that the testimony could have properly influenced the tribunal before which the case was being heard, upon the issues involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. State
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.