People v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1959 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 177 - People v. Alcalde (1944), People v. O'Bryan (1913)
33 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. Scoggins · People v. Arnold · People v. Bush · People v. Chuck · People v. Wong Ah Ngow
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under these circumstances, all the acts and conduct of the deceased, either in the nature of overt acts of hostility, or threats communicated or uncommunicated, were proper evidence to be considered by the jury as shedding light—■ to some extent, at least—upon the issue as to whether the deceased or the defendant was the aggressor in this fatal affray. These principles are elementary in criminal law, and a citation of authorities not demanded; but the general principles are found discussed in People v. Arnold, 15 Cal. 479 ; People v. Scoggins, 37 Cal. 677 ; People v. Travis, 56 Cal. 252 ; People v. Tamkin, 62 Cal. 469 .””
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.