People v. Bechtel’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 121 Cal. App. 2d 140 - People v. Silverstein (1953), State v. Pickering (1975)
28 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 Palko v. State of Connecticut · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · People v. Warren · People v. Newell · People v. Defoor
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to give evidence against himself or be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pickering
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.