People v. Munn’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably People v. Dail (1943), 30 Cal. App. 2d 185 - People v. King (1938)
1 federal appellate · 51 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 Wellar v. People · Brown v. State · Smith v. State · People v. Murat · Commonwealth v. Thompson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the means employed be not dangerous to life, or, in other words if the blows causing death are inflicted with the fist, and there are no aggravating circumstances, the law will not raise the implication of malice aforethought, which must exist to make the crime murder.” (Italics ours.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jensen · People v. Cayer
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.