People v. Hubbell’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 328 - People v. Burton (1961), In Re Cheryl H. (1984)
43 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. Warren · People v. Scofield · People v. Robbins · People v. Baldwin · 41 Cal. App. 2d 586 - People v. Chan Chaun
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence of the corpus delicti need not be of conclusive character, and need not necessarily connect the party informed against with the commission of the crime, in order to justify the consideration of an admission or confession of such party so charged with the crime. “It is not necessary that the corpus delicti should be proved beyond a reasonable doubt before proof may be made of an .admission or confession. Prima facie evidence of the corpus ■delicti is sufficient; and it is for the court to say whether there is sufficient evidence of the corpus delicti to go to the jury, precisely as in the case of any other material fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“’“It mnst be apparent that a confession dictated by the hopes and motives of the accused and inspired solely by his own mental processes and emotions is voluntary ■ in a legal sense. It is not the pressure of the circumstances surrounding the accused person, but pressure exerted by others tending to influence his actions, that is to be weighed in determining whether his confession of guilt has been made voluntarily or under the compulsion of external influences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beaver v. State
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.