People v. Cornelison’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably People v. Lowe (1983), People v. Sepeda (1978)
73 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Commonwealth v. Graves · United States v. Swallow · Dolan v. People · Claxton v. People
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person acts intentionally with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense when his conscious objective is to cause such result or to engage in such conduct."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) A person commits the crime of murder in the second degree if: “(a) He causes the death of a person intentionally, but without premeditation .... “(2) Diminished responsibility due to lack of mental capacity is not a defense to murder in the second degree.” Section 18-3-103, C.R.S. 1973.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * a defendant's voluntary intoxication may be evidence of his inability to entertain the specific intent required for conviction of second-degree murder.”
2 later decisions 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.