69 Cal. 2d 44 - People v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court (1970), 21 Cal. 3d 562 - People v. Caudillo (1978)
119 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 Hubbard · 60 Cal. 2d 666 - In re Zerbe · People v. Hallner · People v. Jennes · Martin v. Superior Court
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n construing a criminal statute, a defendant `must be given the benefit of every reasonable doubt as to whether the statute was applicable to him.' [Citation.]”
4 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.