42 Cal. 2d 200 - People v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964), 47 Cal. 2d 566 - People v. Riser (1956)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 116 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 Andres v. United States · Winston v. United States · People v. Maughs · People v. Thomas · People v. Rogers
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are satisfied that the lighter punishment should be imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Green · People v. Green“there is no evidence that the shots were fired from a position of concealment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.