People v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably 70 Cal. 2d 851 - Galvan v. Superior Court (1969), 261 Cal. App. 2d 468 - People v. Wells (1968)
6 federal appellate · 38 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 In Re Lee · People v. Ralph · In Re Rameriz · 3 Cal. 2d 441 - People v. McNabb · People v. Sama
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That section of the code absolutely prohibits all prisoners in any state prison, without qualification, from possessing or carrying on their persons certain designated deadly weapons. The intention with which the weapon is carried on the person is not made an element of the offense. Proof of the possession of the prohibited weapon infers that it is carried in violation of the statute.” (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Marcus
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.