State v. Koho’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2006
10 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 27 Cal. 2d 164 - People v. Bender · State v. Snowden · People v. Heslen · State v. Shuff
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Should the jury find from the evidence that the defendant has committed a public offense charged in the information but entertain a reasonable doubt as to which of several degrees he is guilty, then he can be convicted only of the highest degree as to his guilt of which you have, from the evidence, no reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pratt“was a correct statement of the intent of the statute as applied to a case involving more than two degrees of crime, such as this where murder of the first and second degrees and voluntary manslaughter were involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pratt
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.