People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2002
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Lee · 3 Cal. 2d 441 - People v. McNabb · 25 Cal. 2d 799 - In Re Quinn
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ § 4500. (By life prisoners: Punishment.) Every person undergoing a life sentence, in a State prison of this State, who, with malice aforethought, commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument, or by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, is punishable with death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duffy v. Wells
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.