People v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably People v. Ford (1964), People v. Gilbert (1965)
36 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. Dawson · People v. Russell · People v. Giacamella
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`A charge in the language of the statute that the accused had kidnaped his victim for the purpose of robbery in violation of the statute apprises the accused of what he will be expected to meet and of the several punishments prescribed therefor, any one of which, upon conviction, may be imposed upon him.' [ People v. Britton, ] (6 Cal.2d [1] at pp. 4-5). [ 56 P.2d 494 at p. 496 .] The court pointed out: `It is well settled in this state that an indictment or information need not allege the particular mode or means employed in the commission of an offense, except when of the essence thereof. [Citation.] In other words, particulars as to manner, means, place or circumstances need not in general be added to the statutory definition.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any touching of the person of another against his will with physical force in an intentional, hostile and aggravated manner, or the projecting of such force against his person”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'particulars as to manner, means, place or circumstances [of the offense] need not in general be added to the statutory definition.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. E.L.Y. v. State · E.L.Y. 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.