People v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 43 Cal. 3d 1002 - People v. Woodhead · 49 Cal. 3d 291 - People v. Carrera · 39 Cal. 3d 481 - People v. Aston · 22 Cal. App. 4th 278 - People v. McDaniel
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very person who willfully. . . threatens to use force or violence upon the person of a witness to, or a victim of, a crime or any other person . . . because the witness, victim, or other person has provided any assistance or information to a law enforcement officer, or to a public prosecutor in a criminal proceeding . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The obvious intent [of section 140] is to preserve and protect witnesses. Protection of witnesses does not require that the witness be personally aware of the threat involving force or violence. . . . [S]ection 140 prohibits the threats it describes, whether or not the threats are communicated to the potential victim.”
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.