People v. Freel’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 28 Cal. 2d 121 - People v. Valentine (1946), 23 Cal. 4th 101 - People v. Lasko (2000)
22 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although the intent to kill exists, it is not that deliberate and malicious intent which is an essential element in the crime of murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the unintentional result of a sudden heat of passion, or of an unlawful act committed without due caution or circumspection.'”
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.