52 Cal. 2d 521 - People v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 53 Cal. 2d 370 - People v. Banks (1959), 57 Cal. 2d 574 - People v. Tideman (1962)
114 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 Mooney v. Holohan · Ex parte Lange · Bozza v. United States · United States v. Benz · 47 Cal. 2d 45 - People v. Burke
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such a situation appeal from the judgment is an adequate remedy; allowance of an appeal from the order denying the motion to vacate would virtually give defendant two appeals from the same ruling and, since there is no time limited [sic] within which the motion may be made, would in effect indefinitely extend the time for appeal from the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any order made after judgment, affecting the substantial rights”
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.