People v. Wochnick’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald (1984), 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley (1982)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Frye v. United States · State v. Lowry · 85 Cal. App. 2d 686 - People v. Houser · State v. Cole · People v. Forte
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think the systolic blood pressure deception test has not yet gained such standing and scientific recognition among physiological and psychological authorities as would justify the courts in admitting expert testimony deduced from the discovery, development, and experiments thus far made.”
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.