People v. Powell

How courts have described this case

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

• permitting the fact finder, where no miscarriage of justice appears, “because of what technically may be extralegal considerations, such as mercy, [to] temper . . . the harsh application of the law . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Ford
  California Supreme Court· 1964-02-04· cited 317×
• People v. Rios
  California Supreme Court· 2000-06-29· cited 239×
• People v. Lee
  California Supreme Court· 1999-03-04· cited 206×
• People v. Burroughs
  California Supreme Court· 1984-04-19· cited 183×
• People v. Hall
  California Supreme Court· 1980-09-08· cited 156×
• Davenport v. Davenport
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-05-04· cited 153×
• People v. Brown
  California Supreme Court· 1958-01-07· cited 151×
• People v. Belous
  California Supreme Court· 1969-09-05· cited 140×
• People v. Spencer
  California Supreme Court· 1963-07-02· cited 112×
• People v. Williams
  California Supreme Court· 1965-10-22· cited 85×
• People v. Poindexter
  California Supreme Court· 1958-10-24· cited 70×
• People v. Sanchez
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-11-05· cited 67×
• People v. Webb
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-10-14· cited 66×
• State v. Ogden
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1978-07-05· cited 51×
• People v. Christian J.
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-05-02· cited 48×
• People v. Forbs
  California Supreme Court· 1965-06-16· cited 45×
• People v. Finch
  California Court of Appeal· 1963-03-12· cited 42×
• Sheriff, Clark County v. Morris
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-03-01· cited 35×
• People v. Brown
  California Court of Appeal· 1973-11-14· cited 35×
• People v. Sheran
  California Supreme Court· 1957-09-17· cited 33×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Williams
  California Supreme Court· 1945-11-16· cited 124×
• People v. McMonigle
  California Supreme Court· 1947-02-18· cited 85×
• People v. Jones
  California Supreme Court· 1898-12-19· cited 68×
• People v. Simonsen
  California Supreme Court· 1895-05-28· cited 57×
• People v. Muhlner
  California Supreme Court· 1896-12-17· cited 50×
• People v. Harper
  California Supreme Court· 1945-02-07· cited 46×
• People v. Lem You
  California Supreme Court· 1893-01-18· cited 44×
• People v. MacKen
  California Court of Appeal· 1939-03-31· cited 39×
• People v. Blackwood
  California Court of Appeal· 1939-12-06· cited 33×
• People v. Barnhart
  California Supreme Court· 1881-07-15· cited 26×
• People v. Long
  California Supreme Court· 1940-06-27· cited 20×
• People v. Glab
  California Court of Appeal· 1936-06-30· cited 20×