People v. Dorman’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 1976 · most notably 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles (1950), 65 Cal. 2d 41 - People v. Ford (1966)
6 federal appellate · 76 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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Patton v. United States · Betts v. Brady
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Where the facts impel a conviction of murder of the first degree ... and do not admit upon any view of the evidence of a finding other than of murder of the first degree, there is no occasion whatsoever to give instructions as to the differences between the degrees of murder. Hence, although the instructions as to such differences were manifestly erroneous, the errors cannot have prejudiced the appealing defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hilton
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.