67 Cal. 2d 365 - People v. Lara’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 709 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 733 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 43 Cal. 3d 1104 - People v. Anderson (1987), 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland (1969)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 709 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · Jackson v. Denno · Gault
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 733 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [A] minor has the capacity to make a voluntary confession, even of capital offenses, without the presence or consent of counsel or other responsible adult, and the admissibility of such a confession depends not on his age alone but on a combination of that factor with such other circumstances as his intelligence, education, experience, and ability to comprehend the meaning and effect of his statement. .. .”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`We see no reason at this time for making such statements inadmissible. In determining the character of their statements, that is, whether they are free and voluntary, the age of the person should be considered, but to rule out all statements merely because of the youth of the maker, would unduly restrict law enforcement... .'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`whether the officers could reasonably rely on that information under the circumstances.'”
3 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.