People v. Sperl’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 54 Cal. 3d 787 - People v. Edwards (1991), 19 Cal. 3d 338 - People v. Superior Court (Hartway) (1977)
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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. Morton Salt Co. · 15 Cal. 3d 286 - Murgia v. Municipal Court
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is clear that fraudulent intent or an intent to deceive is not required under section 424, [former] subdivision 3”
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.