62 Cal. 2d 280 - People v. Victor’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 277 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court (1970), 10 Cal. App. 3d 376 - Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance (1970)
4 federal appellate · 277 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 Nash v. United States · Select Base Materials, Inc. v. Board of Equalization · State of Minnesota Pearson v. Probate Court of Ramsey County Minn · 53 Cal. 2d 370 - People v. Banks · In Re Newbern
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]easonable certainty is all that is required. A statute will not be held void for uncertainty if any reasonable and practical construction can be given its language”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(In re Newbern, 53 Cal.2d 786, 792 [ 350 P.2d 116 ].) In In re De La O, 59 Cal.2d 128, 153 [ 28 Cal.Rptr. 489 , 378 P.2d 793 , 98 A.L.R.2d 705 ], it is said: “Words used in a statute are ordinarily to be construed according to the context and ‘the approved usage of the language’ (Civ. Code, § 13), and ‘a statute is sufficiently certain if it employs words of long usage or with a common law meaning, “notwithstanding an element of degree in the definition as to which estimates might differ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Admittedly the word [`imminent'] is to some extent a relative one; but `the law is full of instances where a man's fate depends on his estimating rightly, that is, as the jury subsequently estimates it, some matter of degree.' [Citation.]”
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.