People v. Witt’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably People v. Washington (1965), 41 Cal. 4th 555 - People v. Geier (2007)
3 federal appellate · 110 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. Flannelly · People v. Milton · People v. Chew Lan Ong · People v. Coyne · People v. Hyndman
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Concededly, this describes the offense of murder in the language of our statute....."Whatever may be the rule declared by some cases from other jurisdictions, it must be accepted as the settled law of this state that it is sufficient to charge the offense of murder in the language of the statute defining it, whatever the circumstances of the particular case. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lundhigh
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.