60 Cal. 2d 482 - People v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 531 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 605 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably North Carolina v. Pearce (1969), United States v. Ewell (1966)
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 531 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Green v. United States · Ball v. United States · Stroud v. United States · People v. Wells · People v. Carmen
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 605 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince the state has no interest in preserving erroneous judgments, it has no interest in foreclosing appeals therefrom by imposing unreasonable conditions on the right to appeal.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“ameliorate the law governing criminal responsibility prescribed by the M'Naghten rule”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is immaterial to the basic purpose of the constitutional provision against double jeopardy whether the legislature divides a crime into different punishments or allows the court or jury to fix different punishments for the same crime.”
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.