People v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
232
cited by 232 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
July 2023
most recently cited
222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably Chapman v. State of California (1967), 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland (1969)
222 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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.