People v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 408 - People v. Mincey (1992), 47 Cal. 4th 203 - People v. Burney (2009)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Chapman v. State of California · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Dutton v. Evans
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any unlawful killing, intentional or otherwise, committed in the perpetration of robbery or burglary for the intended purpose of theft constitutes the crime of first-degree murder.”); People v. Hutchinson, 254 Cal.App.2d 32 , 61 Cal.Rptr. 868 , 872-73 (1967) (same as Waller); see also Cabaltero, 87 P.2d at 368-69 (holding that it did not matter whether a killing was”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cavitt v. Cullen“Typically, penal provisions imposing added punishment do not purport to define a criminal offense but simply relate to the penalty to be imposed under certain circumstances”
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.