44 Cal. 2d 426 - People v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 524 - People v. St. Martin (1970), 61 Cal. 2d 795 - People v. Wolff (1964)
40 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 40 Cal. 2d 876 - People v. Daugherty · People v. Wells · People v. Chessman · 37 Cal. 2d 656 - People v. Chavez · 104 Cal. App. 2d 642 - People v. Hess
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, regardless of the doubtful merit of defendant's suggestion as a generally workable test, if any change is to be made in the accepted standard for determining guilt in relation to the insanity plea, the arguments for such change should be addressed to the Legislature rather than to the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to examine the defendant and investigate his sanity”
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.