State v. Sexson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 federal appellate · 13 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 State v. Sutphin · State v. Garcia · State v. Hernandez · 51 Cal. 2d 682 - People v. Matlock · 34 Cal. 3d 429 - Forden v. Joseph G.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well accepted that 'aiding,' in the context of determining whether one is eriminally liable for their involvement in the suicide of another, is intended to mean providing the means to commit suicide, not actively performing the act which results in death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gordon“is aimed at preventing an individual from providing someone contemplating suicide with the means to commit suicide,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is aimed at preventing an individual from actively causing the death of someone contemplating suicide”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.