People v. Bergen’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2018
20 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Branzburg v. Hayes · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Bank of Nova Scotia v. United States · United States v. Mechanik
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts look first and foremost to the language of the statute itself to discern legislative intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Seader
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.