Aitken v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably Willson v. Superior Court (1956), 45 Cal. 2d 652 - People v. Boyles (1955)
55 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 15 Cal. 2d 731 - People v. Kynette · People v. Kilvington · Smith v. Whittier · Ball v. Rawles · Michel v. Smith
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Merely the form of the verdict was wrong, and the trial court did not trespass upon the province of the jury in correcting that defect in form and ordering such judgment as should have been properly entered upon the verdicts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`it [is] the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to what facts, if established, would constitute probable cause.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no infringement upon the constitutional rights of the litigants to a trial by jury.”
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.