Cotton v. Superior Court’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 738 - People v. Thornton (1974), 21 Cal. 3d 562 - People v. Caudillo (1978)
138 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 44 Cal. 2d 178 - Bompensiero v. Superior Court · People v. Oliver · 178 Cal. App. 2d 385 - People v. Vetri · Ex parte Keil · Ex Parte Lorenzen
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the Legislature could not reasonably have intended that such incidental movement be a taking "... from one part of the county to another.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“such a state of facts as would lead a man of ordinary caution or prudence to believe, and conscientiously entertain a strong suspicion of the guilt of the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“only incidental to the assault and rioting.”
2 later decisions 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.