People v. Eitzen’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 737 - People v. Frazer (1999), People v. Gordon (1985)
34 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 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse · 47 Cal. 2d 374 - People v. Roberts · Calvin R. Morgan v. Riverside Mills Company, C. A. Folk, T. I. Ward · 1 Cal. 3d 144 - Skelton v. Superior Court · 9 Cal. 3d 662 - People v. Uhlemann
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But a magistrate conducting a preliminary examination must be convinced of only such a state of facts as would lead a man of ordinary caution or prudence to believe, and conscientiously entertain a strong suspicion of the guilt of the accused. [Citations.] In other words, `Evidence that will justify a prosecution need not be sufficient to support a conviction.... An information will not be set aside or a prosecution thereon prohibited if there is some rational ground for assuming the possibility that an offense has been committed and the accused is guilty of it. [Citations.]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Encerti“that is, such a state of facts as would lead a person of ordinary caution or prudence to believe and consciously entertain a strong suspicion of the guilt of the accused. ( Williams v. Superior Court (1969) 71 Cal.2d 1144, 1147 [ 80 Cal. Rptr. 747 , 81 Cal. Rptr. 761 , 458 P.2d 987 ]; Dudley v. Superior Court, supra, 36 Cal. App.3d 977, 982 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Encerti“intended to allow the district attorney to ignore the magistrate's findings of fact and charge the defendant with an offense or offenses which the magistrate has expressly found never took place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Encerti
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.