People v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 1984 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 510 - People v. Geiger (1984), People v. Gorshen (1959)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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. Williams · People v. Reynolds · Curtis v. Richards & Vantine · People v. Levison · People v. Mahoney
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the pretense of informing the defendant of the nature of the charge against which he was called to defend, it was necessary at the ancient common law to describe the means by which the homicide was committed, and the nature and extent of the wound and its precise locality; from which it necessarily followed that a trifling variance between the proof and the allegation frequently defeated a conviction, no matter how manifest the guilt of the defendant. It was a long time before legislators and judges discovered that this rule had nothing but the most flimsy pretext to support it. If thedefend-ant is guilty, he stands in need of no information to be derived from a peru sal of the indictment as to the means used by him in committing the act, or the manner in which it was done, for as to both his own knowledge is quite as reliable as any statement contained in the indictment; if he is not guilty, the information could not aid in the preparation of the defense. A disposition to relax much of this ancient strictness in criminal proceedings has manifested itself in modern practice. ””
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.