6 Cal. 3d 28 - People v. Satchell’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 264 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 271 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 131 - Carlos v. Superior Court (1983), 30 Cal. 3d 290 - People v. Watson (1981)
7 federal appellate · 264 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 1 Cal. 3d 444 - People v. Hood · 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland · People v. Ford · People v. Washington · 53 Cal. 2d 370 - People v. Banks
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 271 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is to deter those engaged in felonies from killing negligently or accidentally.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`should not be extended beyond any rational function that it is designed to serve.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“it cannot be said that a person who has committed a [nondangerous felony], when he arms himself with a concealable weapon, presents a danger to human life ... significantly more extreme than that presented by a nonfelon similarly armed....”
3 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.