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← 737 P2D 810 - People v. Cortez

People v. Cortez’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
July 2008
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Tate v. People · People v. Freeman · Ricci v. Davis · Wells v. People · People v. Bossert

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'[e]xcept as otherwise provided by law, criminal actions shall be tried in the county where the offense was committed or in any other county where an action in furtherance of the offense occurred,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “it was permissible to infer from the defendant's exclusive possession of the recently stolen property that the defendant participated in the original taking of the property.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “'sufficient evidence to tie the defendant to an act in furtherance of the offense in [the charging county].1”
    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.