People v. Hubert’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 672 - People v. Cantrell (1973), 39 Cal. 3d 765 - People v. Skinner (1985)
31 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. Ward · People v. Hoin · Mann v. Higgins
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conceding that the act was the offspring of an irresistible impulse, and the impulse was irresistible because of mental disease, still the defendant must be held responsible if he at the time had the requisite knowledge as to the nature and quality of the act, and of its wrongfulness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the will power is weakened, although the mentality is not at all or only slightly impaired, the fear of punishment must be of some value as a restraint, and the class of people referred to need that restraining influence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the defendant had certain special delusions which completely possessed him, but was perfectly sane on all other subjects, ... then he must be judged as though the facts with respect to which the delusions exist were real.”
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.