49 Cal. 2d 101 - People v. Sheran’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably 9 Cal. 3d 753 - People v. Serrato (1973), People v. Massie (1967)
46 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 40 Cal. 2d 876 - People v. Daugherty · 28 Cal. 2d 121 - People v. Valentine · People v. Holt · Brooks v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Richardson v. Ham
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... judge the credibility of the witnesses, determine the probative force of the testimony and weigh the evidence....'”
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.