People v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 22 Cal. 3d 388 - Hale v. Morgan (1978), 71 Cal. 2d 954 - People v. Belous (1969)
42 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 49 Cal. 2d 409 - People v. McCaughan · 28 Cal. 2d 481 - Lockheed Aircraft Corp. v. Superior Court · 31 Cal. 2d 801 - In Re Trombley · Pacific Coast Dairy v. Police Court · Daugherty v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A statute should be sufficiently certain so that a person may know what is prohibited thereby and what may be done without violating its provisions, but it cannot be held void for uncertainty if any reasonable and practical construction can be given to its language. As stated in Pacific Coast Dairy v. Police Court, 214 Cal. 668 , at page 676 ... "Mere difficulty in ascertaining its meaning, or the fact that it is susceptible of different interpretations will not render it nugatory. Doubts as to its construction will not justify us in disregarding it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * [A] contractor guilty of such conduct has also acted against good morals and fair dealings, that his conduct has necessarily prejudiced the rights of homeowners * * * and that his acts likewise constitute a ‘case of fraud’ within the exception to the constitutional ban on imprisonment for debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reps“Mere difficulty in ascertaining its meaning, or the fact that it is susceptible of different interpretations will not render it nugatory. Doubts as to its construction will not justify us in disregarding it.”
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.