People v. Lung’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1987
20 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 People v. Garnett
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not material that an information (which charged that the defendant ‘ did willfully and unlawfully carry on and conduct a certain game of tan, then and there played for money,’ etc) should have stated that he did so as employee or owner of such game.” People v. Sam Lung, 70 Cal. 515 , 11 Pac. 673 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Middleton v. State
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.