People v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably 5 Cal. App. 3d 844 - People v. Johnson (1970), 187 Cal. App. 3d 400 - People v. Spann (1986)
39 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 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado · 64 Cal. 2d 504 - People v. Leal
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the statutory differentiation of the various crimes as well as the history of the cases culminating in Sullivan show that in penalizing a person who possesses a narcotic the Legislature proscribed possession of a substance that has a narcotic potential; it condemned the commodity that could be used as such. It did not refer to useless traces or residue of such substance. . . . Since in the present ease the prosecution proved no more than defendant’s possession of traces of narcotics and did not show that such residue was usable for sale or consumption, we remit it to the trial court for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such factual elements were present. ” (Italics in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Villalobos
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.