People v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 953 - People v. Tewksbury (1976), People v. Holt (1944)
2 federal appellate · 90 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 People v. Howard · People v. Kelley · People v. Roe · People v. Jones · People v. Mahatch
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The attending circumstances neither indicate an abandoned and malignant heart on the part of appellant, nor portray a wilful, deliberate or premeditated killing, but reveal a crime committed 'upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion,' i. e., voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Slater“it should be made clear that the doubt,' if any, like that universally required of the jury on the trial of a criminal action, should be not merely fanciful or imaginary, but should be reasonable, real and substantial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Slater
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.