People v. Button’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably 46 Cal. 3d 833 - People v. Crandell (1988), 2 Cal. 4th 271 - People v. Roberts (1992)
1 district · 24 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 Bliss v. Hosmer · State 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And no man, by his own lawless acts, can create a necessity for acting in self-defens'e, and then, upon killing the person with whom he seeks the difficulty, interpose the plea of self-defense, subject to the qualification next hereinafter set out. The plea of necessity is a shield for those only who are wdthout fault in occasioning it and acting under it. The court instructs the jury that, if you are satisfied that there was a quarrel between the defendant and deceased, in which the defendant was the aggressor and' first assaulted the deceased by means or force likely to produce, and actually producing, great bodily injury to the deceased, and that the defendant thereafter, in the same quarrel, fatally shot the deceased, then you must find the defendant guilty, subject to this qualification.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Kennett
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.