People v. Platnick’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
August 1967
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 5 Cal. 2d 714 - People v. Ottey · 14 Cal. 2d 693 - People v. Waller · 69 Cal. App. 2d 781 - People v. Draper · People v. Perry · 60 Cal. App. 2d 492 - People v. McCabe
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the mere possession of stolen property unexplained by the defendant is not of itself, and standing alone, sufficient to justify a conviction of burglary, even if it be shown to a *Page 641 moral certainty and beyond a reasonable doubt that by someone the alleged burglary was committed, yet such possession of stolen property is a circumstance which, taken in connection with other incriminating evidence in the case, may be considered by the court or jury in determining the question of the guilt or innocence of a defendant so charged.”
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.