People v. McDowell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing the diminished capacity defense based on “mental abnormality” as “settled” and “commonplace”
• describing the diminished capacity defense based on “mental abnormality” as “settled” and “commonplace”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Pope
  California Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 966×
• State v. Thomas
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-03-19· cited 399×
• People v. Frierson
  California Supreme Court· 1979-08-31· cited 398×
• People v. Degraffenreid
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1969-10-30· cited 235×
• People v. Chacon
  California Supreme Court· 1968-11-27· cited 172×
• People v. Stanworth
  California Supreme Court· 1974-06-03· cited 166×
• In Re Saunders
  California Supreme Court· 1970-08-07· cited 160×
• People v. Wetmore
  California Supreme Court· 1978-09-26· cited 119×
• In Re Smith
  California Supreme Court· 1970-07-09· cited 108×
• People v. Miller
  California Supreme Court· 1972-07-13· cited 104×
• People v. Cruz
  California Supreme Court· 1980-01-24· cited 102×
• People v. Corona
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-05-08· cited 96×
• People v. Lines
  California Supreme Court· 1975-02-14· cited 95×
• In Re Johnson
  California Supreme Court· 1970-10-29· cited 76×
• People v. Coogler
  California Supreme Court· 1969-05-28· cited 64×
• People v. LaBree
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-06-13· cited 53×
• People v. Meneley
  California Court of Appeal· 1972-11-30· cited 46×
• People v. Simms
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-08-06· cited 45×
• People v. Coffman
  California Court of Appeal· 1969-12-16· cited 45×
• People v. Cram
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-10-16· cited 40×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• People v. Ibarra
  California Supreme Court· 1963-11-14· cited 498×
• People v. Wells
  California Supreme Court· 1949-01-25· cited 362×
• People v. Henderson
  California Supreme Court· 1963-11-19· cited 345×
• People v. Conley
  California Supreme Court· 1966-03-15· cited 312×
• People v. Gorshen
  California Supreme Court· 1959-03-11· cited 273×
• Charles Earl Brubaker v. Fred R. Dickson, Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin, California
  Ninth Circuit· 1962-12-20· cited 202×
• People v. Anderson
  California Supreme Court· 1965-10-01· cited 139×
• In Re Rose
  California Supreme Court· 1965-02-02· cited 50×
• In Re Hawley
  California Supreme Court· 1967-12-01· cited 46×
• People v. Glover
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-12-27· cited 32×
• People v. Welborn
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-12-27· cited 27×
• Milo F. Vale, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Ridge Road Investment Corporation, Bankrupt v. Gary National Bank
  Seventh Circuit· 1969-02-05· cited 5×