People v. Kerns’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1997
3 federal appellate · 18 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 119 Cal. App. 82 - People v. Beesly · People v. Markham · 75 Cal. App. 365 - People v. Anderson · People v. Squires · 59 Cal. App. 381 - People v. Lips
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.
““ . . . In the instant case, it is not necessary that there be an understanding, in the sense of an agreement, with the person unlawfully approached, but merely an understanding on the part of the bribe seeker himself that his official action shall be influenced. We are satisfied that the language of the information, the relevant parts of which we set forth above, is a sufficient allegation in this regard. People v. Beesly, 119 Cal. App. 82 , 6 P.2d 114, 970 ; People v. McGee, 107 Cal.App. 56 , 290 P. 61 ; People v. Seeley, 137 Cal. 13 , 69 P. 693 .””
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.