64 Cal. 2d 437 - In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 149 - Morse v. Municipal Court (1974), 5 Cal. 3d 469 - People v. Noah (1971)
37 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 Griffin v. California · Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott · People v. Wells · In Re Herrera · In re Gaines
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person confined in a state prison of this state ... who commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument ... shall be guilty of a felony ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the purpose of [statutes prohibiting assault and battery by those confined in a state prison] is to promote prison safety by discouraging assaults by prison inmates”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Valdez“covered prisoners in a state prison pursuant to a Youth Authority commitment. ...”
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.