53 Cal. 2d 755 - People v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 531 - Pitchess v. Superior Court (1974), 64 Cal. 2d 159 - Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego County (1966)
3 federal appellate · 165 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. Thomas · 52 Cal. 2d 95 - People v. Chapman · 41 Cal. 2d 832 - People v. Deloney · 49 Cal. 2d 313 - People v. Craig · People v. De Moss
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mere desire for the benefit of all information which has been obtained”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Here, however, no error in denial of pretrial inspection appears. The court properly denied the blanket request that the prosecution turn over to defense counsel all the statements which it had. Although the defendant does not have to show, and indeed may be unable to show, that the evidence which he seeks to have produced would be admissible at the trial (People v. Chapman (1959), supra, 52 Cal.2d 95, 98 [3] [ 338 P.2d 428 ] ; Walker v. Superior Court (1957), supra, 155 Cal.App.2d 134, 141 [ 317 P.2d 130 ]), he does have to show some better cause for inspection than a mere desire for the benefit of all information which has been obtained by the People in their investigation of the crime.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The corpus delicti of the crime of murder having been established by independent evidence, both reason and authority indicate that the circumstances surrounding the commission of the crime can be shown by the extrajudicial statements of the accused, and that such evidence of the surrounding circumstances may be used to establish the degree of the crime committed.”
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.