People v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably People v. Dail (1943), 83 Cal. App. 2d 272 - People v. Cassandras (1948)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 74 Cal. App. 178 - People v. Follette · 136 Cal. App. 301 - People v. Tinnin · People v. Collins · 107 Cal. App. 211 - People v. Robinson · People v. Armstrong
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also well settled that motive and design to commit a crime, if proved, may be considered a guilty circumstance * * * and consequently may serve legally as corroborative evidence; and in this behalf it has been repeatedly held that where, as here, it is claimed that several offenses have been committed as part of one scheme or plan, all of the same general character, tending to the same common end, evidence thereof may be received to show the process or motive and design to commit the particular offense with which the accused is charged, and as tending to show logically that the particular offense for which he is being tried was part of such common scheme.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scanlon · State v. Scanlon“Corroborative evidence need not be strong, nor even be sufficient in itself without the aid of other evidence to establish the fact. (Citations.) The circumstances legally sufficient to sustain a conviction may consist of the extrajudicial statements, declarations, admissions or confessions of the accused (citations); his silence in the face of accusatory statements (citations); or, as stated, where he voluntarily becomes a witness in his own behalf, it may be gathered from his own testimony (People v. Watson, supra [ 21 Cal.App. 692 ( 132 P. 836 )]) or his conduct and attitude as a witness (State v. Miller, supra [ 24 W.Va. 802 ]).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The question of whether the false swearing is the result of an honest mistake or has been committed willfully, knowingly and corruptly is one of fact for the jury to decide [citation], and evidently the jury in the present case, as shown by its verdict, did not believe the story told by appellant.”
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.