People v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably 31 Cal. 3d 355 - People v. Nelums (1982), 115 Cal. App. 3d 744 - People v. Bradley (1981)
29 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 30 Cal. App. 3d 446 - People v. Hayden · 266 Cal. App. 2d 341 - People v. Jackson · 42 Cal. App. 3d 988 - People v. Favalora · People v. Evans
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court's instructions to the jury that operability of the weapon [on a Penal Code section 12021 charge] was not an issue were correct”
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.