People v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably People v. Holmes (1960), 4 Cal. 4th 43 - People v. Hawthorne (1992)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 98 Cal. App. 702 - People v. Garcia · 89 Cal. App. 2d 181 - People v. Jackson · 70 Cal. App. 2d 213 - In Re Evans · 100 Cal. App. 600 - People v. Spinato · 126 Cal. App. 158 - People v. Woods
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to trial by jury in a criminal case is a sacred one and accordingly the method of waiver provided in the constitution must be strictly followed. For this reason `it is necessary that the defendant personally express in open court that he consents to a waiver of a trial by jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Heinze“by the consent of both parties, expressed in open court by the defendant and his counsel ...”
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.