People v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1987
2 district · 19 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 Atherton v. Fowler · People v. Velarde · McBrown v. Morris
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appearing to me by tbe within depositions and statement, if any, that the crime therein mentioned, or any other crime, according to the fact, stating generally the nature thereof, has been committed, and that there is sufficient cause to believe the within named guilty thereof, I order that lie be held to answer the same.””
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.