People v. Cota’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1979
10 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. Rogers · 32 Cal. App. 520 - People v. Tugwell · 54 Cal. App. 124 - People v. Washburn · 104 Cal. App. 422 - People v. Galloway · 90 Cal. App. 366 - People v. Didonato
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established in this state that it is proper to refuse an instruction as to a lesser offense or degree included in the offense charged where the evidence warrants a conviction, if at all, only for the higher offense or degree. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Best
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.