People v. Ayala’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2022
12 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 Maestas v. District Court · People v. Treat · Tate v. People · Hunter v. District Ct. in & for Twentieth Jud. Dist. · People v. Quinn
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person commits theft by receiving when he receives, retains, loans money by pawn or pledge on, or disposes of anything of value of another, knowing or believing that said thing of value has been stolen, and when he intends to deprive the lawful owner permanently of the use or benefit of the thing of value,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gibbons“[t] he failure to deliver a certificate of title does not prevent the acquisition of ownership rights as between the parties to the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The sole issue at a preliminary hearing is whether probable cause exists to bind the accused over for trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Huggins
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.