People v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably 30 Cal. 2d 676 - People v. Eggers (1947), 53 Cal. 2d 160 - People v. Atchley (1959)
3 federal appellate · 108 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. Witt · People v. Maughs · Owens v. State · People v. Cronin · People v. Weber
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A confession, in criminal law, is an admission or statement, by a person accused of a crime, to the effect that he is guilty thereof. ‘An admission is distinguished from a confession by the fact that the term “admission”, in criminal matters, relates to matters of fact that do not involved a criminal intent, and a confession is an acknowledgment of guilt.’ (2 Wharton on Criminal Evidence, 10th ed., Sec. 622 a.)””
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.