People v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1982
23 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 119 Cal. App. 523 - People v. Buchanan
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The language of section 5501 ‘if whenever a person is charged with a crime’ was intended to mean charged with a crime having some relation to the type of offense referred to in section 5500 “A contrary construction of the foregoing provisions would be most illogical in view of the use of the word ‘may.’ If the legislature had not intended that the nature of the crime should be considered in passing on the allegations of the affidavit of sexual psychopathy, but had intended that the affidavit alone be considered, the words ‘must’ or ‘shall’ would have been employed in referring to the action taken by the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court is not ousted of jurisdiction over the criminal proceeding by the mere filing of an affidavit asserting that the accused is a sexual psychopath. It is not mandatory that the court shall adjourn the criminal proceeding when the affidavit is filed. The word ‘may,’ as it is used in that section should not be construed as a mandatory direction to the court regardless of the sufficiency of the showing. It is merely discretionary. Unless there is an abuse of that discretion the ruling of the court in that regard may not be disturbed on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Section 5500. As used in this chapter ‘sexual psychopath’ means any person who is affected, in a form predisposing to the commission of sexual offenses [against children], and in a degree constituting him a menace to the health or safety of others, with any of the following conditions: “(a) Mental disease or disorder. “(b) Psychopathic personality. “(c) Marked departures from normal mentality.””
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.