33 Cal. App. 228 - People v. Searle’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1969 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), People v. Carmen (1951)
27 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 People v. Knapp · People v. Roberts · 20 Cal. App. 156 - People v. White · People v. Bush · Perkins v. Stein & Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘An unintentional homicide committed through the negligent handling of a firearm in a way indicating a reckless disregard of life is manslaughter. It is negligence to point a firearm at another without examining to see whether or not it is loaded, or to handle or use it in a place where a discharge is likely to injure another, as in a highway.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““So, where parties were playing or skylarking and defendant recklessly handled his gun. (Murphy v. Commonwealth (Ky.), 22 S.W. 649 ; Henderson v. State, 98 Ala. 35 [ 13 South. 146 ].) In the first-mentioned case the fact that the shot was caused by defendant’s finger accidentally slipping on the trigger was held to be an insufficient excuse.””
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.