People v. Jacobson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 261 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Chapman v. State of California (1967), 8 Cal. 4th 548 - Soule v. General Motors Corp. (1994)
4 federal appellate · 261 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Townsend v. Sain · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · McNabb v. United States
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Almost invariably, however, a confession will constitute persuasive evidence of guilt, and it is therefore usually extremely difficult to determine what part it played in securing the conviction. [Citations.] These considerations justify treating involuntary confessions as a class by themselves and refusing to inquire whether in rare cases their admission in evidence had no bearing on the result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To meet the foundational test the prosecution need not eliminate all inferences tending to show [no crime was committed]. Rather, the foundation may be laid by the introduction of evidence which creates a reasonable inference [a crime was committed] even in the presence of an equally plausible noncriminal explanation of the event.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“after an examination of the entire cause, including the evidence.”
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.