Howe v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably People v. Honey (1979), People v. Marcy (1981)
98 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Stull v. People · United States v. Nielsen · Love v. Bell · Balltrip v. People · 151 Cal. App. 2d 623 - People v. Massey
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * If a statute gives fair description of the conduct forbidden and men of common intelligence can readily apprehend the statute’s meaning and application, it will not be declared unconstitutional for vagueness. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t shall be sufficient to allege that, on or about a day certain, the defendant committed the crime of theft . ... ” (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Wolfe
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.