42 Cal. App. 385 - People v. Sing’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 514 - People v. Bailey (1961), People v. Ferlin (1928)
57 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 Blackwood v. Cutting Packing Co. · People v. Delbos · People v. Staples · People v. Rae · Carl v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the potatoes having been taken in pursuance of one purpose, they were, legally speaking, taken at the same time. The law is that, if the different asportations from the same owner are prompted by one design, one purpose, one impulse, they are a single act, without regard to time.””
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.