People v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably 28 Cal. 2d 306 - People v. Peete (1946), 53 Cal. 3d 467 - People v. Bouzas (1991)
38 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. Sansome
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Q. You have previously been convicted of burglary and the offense of attempted rape; is that correct? A. That is right, yes, sir.” As was said by this court in People v. Jeffries, 47 Cal.App. 2d 801, 807 [ 119 P.2d 190 ], “In view of appellant’s decision voluntarily to become a witness in his own behalf, the prosecution was justified in eliciting from him on cross-examination, by way of impeachment, that he had suffered such prior felony conviction. Such being the case, he cannot now be heard to complain of any prejudice occurring from evidence of that fact having been presented to the jury.””
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.