People v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2017
4 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“little possibility that the failure to expand the charge on identification infected the trial with error”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boone“[t]he court's charge was a correct statement of the law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boone“a matter for the Trial Judge's discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boone
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.