4 Cal. App. 3d 403 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 713 - People v. Melton (1988), 3 Cal. 3d 893 - People v. Rocha (1971)
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama · Barber v. Page · Berger v. California · People v. Green
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(2) The party against whom the former testimony is offered was a party to the action or proceeding in which the testimony was given and had the right and opportunity to cross-examine the declarant with an interest and motive similar to that which he has at the hearing.””
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.