43 Cal. 3d 818 - People v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 51 Cal. 3d 294 - People v. Jones (1990), People v. Holt (1997)
4 federal appellate · 108 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 In re Oliver · Russell v. United States · Cole v. State of Arkansas · Hartman v. United States · 3 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. West
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal defendant must be given fair notice of the charges against him in order that he may have a reasonable opportunity properly to prepare a defense and avoid unfair surprise at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No principle of procedural due process is more clearly established than that notice of the specific charge, and a chance to be heard in a trial of the issues raised by that charge, if desired, are among the constitutional rights of every accused in a criminal proceeding in all courts, state or federal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“So long as the information adequately alleges murder, the evidence adduced at the preliminary hearing will adequately inform the defendant of the prosecution's theory regarding the manner and degree of killing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Luo
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.