62 Cal. 2d 368 - In Re Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 306 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 364 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2008 · most notably Johnson v. State of New Jersey (1966), 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl (1969)
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 306 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 364 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Massiah may not serve as the basis for collateral attack upon judgments which have become final before the date upon which the United States Supreme Court rendered that decision [May 18, 1964], nor may Escobedo or Dorado be applied to cases which have become final prior to the date that the United States Supreme Court rendered the Escobedo decision [June 22, 1964].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e believe that the United States Supreme Court in Escobedo sought primarily to prevent police tactics which, in the past, have spawned involuntary confessions.... [T]he rule contemplated the prospective prevention of coercive practices not the extirpation of such practices committed in the past.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court in Escobedo sought the correction of the conditions which invited the coerced confessions and the attendant evils”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Brooks · People v. Cully
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.