People v. Howes’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 42 Cal. 2d 246 - People v. Ashley (1954), 114 Cal. App. 2d 680 - People v. Frankfort (1952)
72 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. Codina · 77 Cal. App. 2d 350 - People v. Benenato · People v. Rabe · 13 Cal. App. 521 - People v. Hatch · 69 Cal. App. 2d 503 - People v. Chait
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[the general test as to whether there are separate offenses or one offense is whether the evidence discloses one general intent or discloses separate and distinct intents.... If there is but one intention, one general impulse, and one plan, even though there is a series of transactions, there is but one offense."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vinge · Tomomitsu v. State
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.