State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2010
6 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 38 Cal. 3d 345 - Wilkoff v. Superior Court · United States v. Huss · State v. Thompson · 3 Ariz. App. 550 - State v. Miranda · State v. Horn
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lee’s argument ignores the operative language of the statute that “[m]anslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being----” The rest of the statute simply describes the ways in which the crime of manslaughter may be committed. Read as a whole, the statute clearly and unambiguously indicates the legislature’s intent to protect individual victims and to criminalize the unlawful killing of a human being. It necessarily follows that multiple deaths resulting from a single act of driving can be charged as separate offenses under the manslaughter statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turney“Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being including, but not limited to, a human embryo or fetus, without malice. It is of three (3) kinds: 3. Vehicular — in which the operation of a motor vehicle is a significant cause contributing to the death because of: (a) The commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, with gross negligence; or (b) The commission of a violation of section 18-8004 or 18-8006, Idaho Code; or (c) The commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, without gross negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turney
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.