People v. Zilbauer’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably People v. Ford (1964), People v. Carter (1961)
60 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 People v. Carmen · 24 Cal. 2d 177 - People v. Alcalde · 16 Cal. 2d 655 - People v. Agnew · People v. Shafer · People v. Borrego
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The wrong may be committed by acts or by words, or both, and by merely operating upon the will of the individual or by personal violence, or both....”
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.