People v. Gosden’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 28 Cal. 2d 306 - People v. Peete (1946), 40 Cal. 2d 876 - People v. Daugherty (1953)
58 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 United States v. Murdock · Reagan v. United States · Pierson v. . the People · People v. Northcott · People v. Bollinger
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of the court to single out any individual witness in commenting upon his testimony seems to be expressly given by the Constitution which, as we have seen, provides that the court may make such comment on the evidence and the testimony and credibility of any witness as in his opinion is necessary for the proper determination of the case. It is true there are decisions of this court, rendered prior to the adoption of said amendment, and in other jurisdictions, which hold that the court may not single out an individual witness and direct its instructions to the witness mentioned. But if we are to give full effect to the Constitution as it now is in force and which expressly gives the court the power to comment upon the testimony of 'any witness', we must hold that a new rule of procedure has been engrafted onto the jurisprudence of this state which permits the court to single out an individual witness and comment upon his testimony, which power the court did not possess prior to the recent amendment to the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“appeal to my mind as reasonably consistent with an honest mind”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not to my mind been satisfactorily explained”
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.