People v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 1158 - People v. Cooper (1991), 116 Cal. App. 3d 907 - People v. Jardine (1981)
30 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. Ammerman · People v. Hennessey · People v. Fleming · 3 Cal. App. 2d 251 - People v. Beal · 85 Cal. App. 269 - People v. Foss
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They argue that the words ‘taking of personal property * * * from his * * * immediate presence’ must be construed as meaning the taking of personal property in the immediate presence of the lawful possessor and taking it out of and completely away from the presence of such person. From this they contend that, as Marcelo took the money from the immediate presence of the employees of the bank, but was apprehended before he carried it outside of the room in which the bank was located, he did not take it from their immediate presence, and that appellants could be convicted of nothing more serious than an attempt to commit robbery. “We cannot agree with the contention of appellants, nor can we presume that the Legislature intended that -we put any such strained and unreasona ble construction upon the language of this section. The crime of robbery is complete when the robbers without lawful authority and by means of force or fear obtain possession of the personal property of another in the presence of its lawful custodian and reduce it to their manual possession. It is not necessary that, to complete the crime, they carry it out of the physical presence of the lawful possessor or make their escape with it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hitchcock““Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear.””
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.