People v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 244 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 259 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974), 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel (1979)
6 federal appellate · 244 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 20 Cal. 2d 885 - People v. Putnam · People v. Durrant · People v. Howard · People v. Scofield · People v. Kelley
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 259 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he victim of manslaughter or second degree murder is just as dead as is the victim of first degree murder.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘3. When committed in the lawful defense of such person . . ., when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished; but such person ... if he was the assailant or engaged in mutual com bat, must really and in good faith have endeavored to decline any further struggle before the homicide was committed. . . .’ “Section 198 reads as follows: ‘A bare fear of the commission of any of the offenses mentioned in subdivisions two and three of the preceding section, to prevent which homicide may be lawfully committed, is not sufficient to justify it. But the circumstances must be sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable person, and the party killing must have acted under the influence of such fears alone. ’ “The pertinent principles governing the right of self-defense are explained in People v. Westlake (1882), 62 Cal. 303 , 307 : ‘The apprehension of danger to life or limb which justifies a man for taking the life of another must be an honest one—one that is well-grounded, and must arise out of a reasonable cause; . . .’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Degrees of murder.] All murder which is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which is committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or mayhem, is murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murders are of the second degree.”
2 later decisions 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.