Moretton v. Stanley E.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 1 Cal. 3d 524 - People v. St. Martin · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · 9 Cal. 3d 753 - People v. Serrato · 45 Cal. 2d 171 - In Re Hess · 48 Cal. 2d 394 - People v. Marshall
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.
“[T]he two crimes are distinguished by the fact that in extortion the property is taken with the victim's consent whereas in robbery it is taken against his will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Chacon
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.