People v. Cayer’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably People v. Prettyman (1996), 109 Cal. App. 2d 524 - People v. Burns (1952)
34 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 · People v. Warren · People v. Tubby · 76 Cal. App. 2d 148 - People v. Le Grant · People v. Munn
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As applicable to this case, manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice in the driving of a vehicle: (a) In the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony with gross negligence; (b) in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony without gross negligence. “To constitute the kind of manslaughter charged in this case, the death of the human being in question must be the proximate result of the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony. “I instruct you that the phrase ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor’ does not mean that the driver must be drunk or intoxicated, but means that if intoxicating liquor has so far affected his nervous system, brain, or muscles, as to impair to an appreciable degree his ability to operate the vehicle in a manner like that of an ordinarily prudent and cautious man in the full possession of his faculties, using reasonable care, and under like conditions, then such driver is under the influence of intoxicating liquor within the meaning of the statute. ‘‘I instruct you that any person who drives an automobile upon a public highway while under the influence of intoxicating liquor is committing an unlawful act not amounting to a felony. "Notice that I have heretofore indicated something to you about proximate cause. And I find that you should be informed as to what proximate cause means in order for you to be fully instructed upon the law of this case. And therefore I do instruct ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Mead
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.