People v. Cravens’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably 36 Cal. 2d 373 - People v. Jones (1950), 30 Cal. App. 3d 458 - People v. Sobiek (1973)
34 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 71 Cal. App. 2d 606 - People v. Gordon · 72 Cal. App. 102 - People v. Edwards · People v. Myers · People v. Rabe · 24 Cal. App. 440 - People v. Scott
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since by opening tbe joint bank account Mrs. Reame voluntarily placed a title in common to ber money in appellant and voluntarily placed it in Ms power to withdraw tbe funds therefrom as owner be could not be guilty of embezzlement or larceny. People v. Foss, 7 Cal. 2d 669, 670 , 62 P. 2d 372 ; People v. Hotz, 85 Cal. App. 450, 452 , 259 P. 506 ; cases collected in the notes in 17 A.L.R. 982 and 31 L.R.A., N.S., 822; 29 C.J.S., Embezzlement, § 16, p. 693; 36 C.J., Larceny, sec. 153d, p. 782. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is sufficient to prove any single false representation on which the victim relied . . . and the fact that false promises were likewise made is not important if there were also false representations of present or past fact which materially contributed to the victim’s parting with his property or money.” (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are not satisfied that proof that the wrongdoer afterwards converted the parnership property to his own use while the victim was still subject to the influence of his false pretenses would not constitute the crime of obtaining money or property by false pretenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quinn
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.