People v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1987
20 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. Fewkes · 69 Cal. App. 2d 503 - People v. Chait · People v. Wilson · People v. Jordan · 6 Cal. 2d 541 - People v. Herbert
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In People v. Pearne, 118 Cal. 154 [ 50 P. 376 ], the court said: ‘If this indictment had simply charged an “unlawful killing,” without malice, it would have charged the crime of manslaughter of both kinds, voluntary and involuntary.’ Even before the rules of pleading in criminal cases were relaxed by the amendments of 1927 and 1929 it was held sufficient to allege an offense in the language of the statute except in cases where fraud was an essential element of the crime. (In re Berto, 195 Cal. 774 [ 235 P. 735 ].) In many cases, before and after those amendments, it was held that a general charge of manslaughter was sufficient to uphold a conviction of either voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, that it was not necessary to allege in the information which of the two kinds of manslaughter were charged against the defendant, and that no recital of the precise facts that would be relied upon is necessary. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The ingredient of manslaughter is that a human life was unlawfully taken. ■. . . The statute defining it is general and it makes no difference as to the particular means or methods by which it is committed if death ensues from the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or from the commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful manner or the commission of a lawful act without due care and circumspection. (Sec. 192, Pen. Code.) The manner of its commission need not be pleaded.””
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.