11 Cal. App. 759 - People v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1958
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘But if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant unlawfully killed Thomas C. Rowley in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, then the homicide is not excusable, and you should find the defendant guilty as charged in the information.’ It is sufficient to say that the instruction complained of, when coupled with the instructions immediately following, correctly states the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Homicide is excusable in the following cases: “2. When committed by accident and misfortune, in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or upon a sudden combat, when no undue advantage is taken, nor any dangerous weapon used, and when the killing is not done in a cruel or unusual manner.””
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.