People v. Nunn’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 488 - Tech-Bilt, Inc. v. Woodward-Clyde & Associates (1985), 44 Cal. 3d 883 - People v. Williams (1988)
121 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 Sorrells v. United States · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Mooney v. Holohan · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · State of Louisiana Francis v. Resweber
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The phrase `good faith' in common usage has a well-defined and generally understood meaning, being ordinarily used to describe that state of mind denoting honesty of purpose, freedom from intention to defraud, and, generally speaking, means being faithful to one's duty or obligation. (See 18 Words and Phrases, Good Faith, p. 475 et seq.; 35 C.J.S. (1943), Faith, p. 488; 1 Bouvier's Law Dict. (Rawle's Third rev. 1914), p. 1359.)"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A liberal construction should be given constitutional provisions in order to sustain legislative enactments, and all doubts and uncertainties arising from the Constitution, as well as the statute, should be resolved in favor of the validity of the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Daniel · People v. Daniel““A physician may prescribe for, furnish to, or administer narcotics to his patient when the patient is suffering from a disease, ailment, injury, or infirmities attendant upon old age, other than narcotic addiction. “The physician shall prescribe, furnish, or administer narcotics only when in good faith he believes the disease, ailment, injury, or infirmity, requires such treatment. “The physician shall prescribe, furnish, or administer narcotics only in such quantity and for such length of time as are reasonably necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bowman
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.