70 Cal. 2d 711 - People v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974), 43 Cal. 3d 1104 - People v. Anderson (1987)
1 federal appellate · 151 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being, without malice. It is of two kinds: 1. Voluntary — upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion. 2. Involuntary * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.