43 Cal. 3d 1002 - People v. Woodhead’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 673 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 682 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 14 Cal. 4th 605 - People v. Gardeley (1996), 52 Cal. 3d 1142 - Harris v. Capital Growth Investors XIV (1991)
6 federal appellate · 673 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 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · Overstreet v. North Shore Corp. · 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court · 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro · 42 Cal. 3d 891 - People v. Overstreet
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 682 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When the language is clear and unambiguous, there is no need for construction. [Citation.] When the language is susceptible of more than one reasonable interpretation, however, we look to a variety of extrinsic aids,'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“to ascertain and effectuate legislative intent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A statute must be construed `in the context of the entire statutory system of which it is a part, in order to achieve harmony among the parts.' [Citation.]”
4 later decisions 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.