People v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 211 - People v. Williams (1971), State v. Brown (1979)
136 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 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · 45 Cal. 2d 776 - People v. Gorg · People v. Francis · 55 Cal. 2d 282 - People v. Redrick · 67 Cal. 2d 471 - Rideout 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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the mere possession of a narcotic constitutes substantial evidence that the possessor of the narcotic knew of its nature. [Citations.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The elements of the crime of possession of narcotics are physical or constructive possession thereof coupled with knowledge of the presence of the drug and its narcotic character [citations]; possession need not be exclusive. [Citations.]”
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.