People v. Hulse’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably People v. Czemerynski (1990), People v. Ibarra (1993)
58 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 People v. CALVAREST · People v. James · People v. McKenzie · Trueblood v. Tinsley · People v. District Ct. in and for City & Co. of Denver
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is only where the same criminal conduct is proscribed in both statutes that the equal protection principle arises. In the statutes we compare today, there is a crucial difference in that the vehicular homicide statute requires for conviction that the prosecution prove the additional element of a death caused through the use of a motor vehicle.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 18-3-106(l)(a) provides that: If a person operates or drives a motor vehicle in a reckless manner, and such conduct is the proximate cause of the death of another, such person commits vehicular homicide. Under §18-3-106(l)(b), If a person operates or drives a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol ... and such conduct is the proximate cause of the death of another, such person commits vehicular homicide. This is a strict liability crime. Section 18-3-106(l)(c) provides that: Vehicular homicide, in violation of paragraph (a) of this subsection (1), is a class 4 felony. Vehicular homicide, in violation of paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), is a class 3 felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Loeser“state['s] . . . legitimate interest in discouraging a specific evil which it believes to be of greater societal consequence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.