People v. Sipper’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably 49 Cal. 2d 647 - Biakanja v. Irving (1958), 15 Cal. 3d 286 - Murgia v. Municipal Court (1975)
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Norris v. State of Alabama · Ah Sin v. Wittman · Williams v. State of Mississippi
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s the term is generally understood, the practice of law ... includes legal advice and counsel and the preparation of legal instruments and contracts by which legal rights are secured although such matter may or may not be pending in a court, [citations omitted].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Agran v. Shapiro · In Re McCarthy“[p]rotection of the law will be extended to all persons equally in the pursuit of their lawful occupations [as in Yick Wo ] ... no person has the right to demand protection of the law in the commission of a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the practice of law,” has been repeatedly defined by our reviewing courts. They have uniformly said that”
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.