People v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2012
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 14 Cal. 3d 727 - Kirkpatrick v. Edgar M. · 10 Cal. 3d 351 - Rooney v. Vermont Investment Corp. · 18 Cal. 3d 687 - Davis v. Dennis B. · 13 Cal. 3d 1 - Sarracino v. Superior Court · 232 Cal. App. 2d 85 - West v. U. L. C. Corp.
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.
“the unique and specialized function of trying infraction cases ... could properly be ranked as `subordinate' in relation to the diversity and complexity of the other duties of a municipal court judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“have the same jurisdiction and exercise the same powers and duties as the judges of the court with respect to any infraction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are subordinate judicial duties within the meaning of Section 22 of Article VI of the California Constitution”
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.