People v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably 183 Cal. App. 2d 212 - People v. Robles (1960), 176 Cal. App. 2d 731 - People v. Courtney (1959)
28 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 Hansen v. Bear Film Co. · 77 Cal. App. 2d 350 - People v. Benenato · People v. Becker · People v. Hudson · Robinson v. Robinson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution, or who, by promises, ... or by any device or scheme, shall cause, induce, persuade or encourage a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution, or shall procure for a female person a place as an inmate in a house of prostitution . . . shall be guilty of a felony, to wit: pandering ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mitchell““Prostitution is the common, indiscriminate, illicit intercourse of a woman for hire. “A ‘house of prostitution’ is a house in which a prostitute plies her trade. “ ‘A prostitute’ is a woman who offers herself indiscriminately to sexual intercourse for hire. “A house of ill fame is synonymous with a house of prostitution. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Frey“the evidence shows that the accused has succeeded in inducing his victim to become an inmate of a house of prostitution,”
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.