People v. Blessing’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably State v. Yarbough (1985), 45 Cal. 3d 147 - People v. Heishman (1988)
88 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 23 Cal. 3d 545 - People v. Perez · 18 Cal. 3d 698 - People v. Chi Ko Wong · 18 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Miller · 17 Cal. 3d 330 - In Re Culbreth · 21 Cal. 3d 208 - People v. Collins
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unwilling to engage in idle gestures or reach ridiculous results by slavish adherence to ritualistic form.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Sanchez“[a]ny circumstances in aggravation or mitigation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Sanchez
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.