69 Cal. App. 4th 382 - In Re Eichorn’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2016
4 federal appellate · 14 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Robinson v. State of California · 9 Cal. 4th 1069 - Tobe v. City of Santa Ana · 5 Cal. 4th 813 - In Re Harris · 43 Cal. App. 3d 823 - People v. Lovercamp
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence sufficient to establish that defendant violated the law (1) to prevent a significant evil, (2) with no adequate alternative, (3) without creating a greater danger than the one avoided, (4) with a good faith belief in the necessity, (5) with such belief being objectively reasonable, and (6) under circumstances in which he did not substantially contribute to the emergency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“founded upon public policy and provides a justification distinct from the elements required to prove the crime. [Citation.]”
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.