People v. Sneed’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably People v. Blue (1975), People v. Bartowsheski (1983)
85 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 Wilson v. State · Howe v. People · People v. Lee · People v. Prante · United States v. Robert L. MacK United States of America v. Harold L. Johnson
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`appreciable length of time must have elapsed to allow deliberation, reflection and judgment.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Tjhe element which distinguishes [extreme indifference murder] from second-degree murder is that the latter degree requires that the perpetrator possess the intent to take the life of a particular person while this first-degree murder statute does not. The element of ‘extreme indifference to human life’ by definition, does not address itself to the life of the victim, but to human life generally. Conversely, though the statute requires that the conduct which creates a grave risk of death be intentional, the use of ‘intentionally’ here does not necessarily mean that the intent be to take the life of a particular person. Indeed, if such were the case, there would be little difference between this statute and the other sections of the first-degree murder statute, see 1971 Perm.Supp., C.R.S.1963, 40-3- 102(l)(a). Furthermore, our statutes define ‘intentionally’ as ‘when his conscious object is to cause that result or to engage in that conduct,’ 1971 Perm.Supp., C.R.S.1963, 40-1-601(6), which we read to mean that the conduct creating the grave risk of death be consciously done. “Again, in contrast, the second-degree murder statute states in part that ‘he cause the death of a person intentionally, but without premeditation.’ 1971 Perm.Supp., C.R.S. 1963, 40-3-103(l)(a). We believe the only construction which this phrase can be given is that the intent be to cause the death of a particular person. Otherwise, there would be no need to distinguish between 1971 Perm.Supp., C.R.S.1963”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““INSTRUCTION NO. 14. The term “after deliberation” means not only intentionally but also that the decision to commit the act has been made after the exercise of reflection and judgment concerning the act. An act committed after deliberation is never one which has been committed-in a hasty or impulsive manner. INSTRUCTION NO. 15. The element of deliberation is established by proof of the formed designed [sic] to kill, and length of time is not a determinative factor. The only time requirement for deliberation within the meaning of the first degree murder statute is an interval sufficient for one thought to follow another.” (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Key
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.