7 Cal. 4th 797 - People v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 17 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Loeun (1997), 17 Cal. 4th 468 - People v. Dennis (1998)
4 federal appellate · 90 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 Roe v. Wade · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Collins v. Youngblood
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Correspondingly, an unforeseeable judicial enlargement of a criminal statute, applied retroactively, operates in the same manner as an ex post facto law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Legislature could criminalize murder of the postembryonic product without the imposition of a viability requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission,”
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.