People v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 58 Cal. App. 4th 298 - People v. Greenberger (1997), People v. Turnage (2012)
38 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno · People v. Green · 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellant argues that because there are `conceivable [] ways of violating the statute that do not necessarily pose a threat to human life' the crime is not inherently dangerous.... [¶] We must view the elements of the offense, not the particular facts of the instant offense. In viewing the elements our task is not to determine if it is possible (i.e., `conceivable') to violate the statute without great danger. By such a test no statute would be inherently dangerous. Rather the question is: does a violation of the statute involve a high probability of death? [Citation.] If it does, the offense is inherently dangerous. "We do not regard the question as a close one. To recklessly or maliciously possess a bomb in a residential area, as appellant did, or in any place close to people, inherently involves a high probability of death. Almost uniquely, bombs have an `inherently dangerous nature.' [Citation.] They are so dangerous that even when not set to explode, their possession violates the statute. [Citation.]... `A bomb has special characteristics which obviously differentiate it from all other objects. In the first place, the maker often loses control over the time of its detonation.... In the second place, it may wreak enormous havoc on persons and property. In the third place, its victims are often unintended sufferers. And finally, considering its vast destructive potentialities, it is susceptible of fairly easy concealment.' [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]ppellant made a linked slave-and-master bomb whose only purpose was to kill people; he stored the bomb in his garage, part of a residential neighborhood; the bomb would explode if a soldered wire touched a nearby metal plate; only a piece of rubbertube [ sic ] protected the triggering contact; ... appellant threatened to blow up [a relative]; on February 8, 1986, appellant knew the police were going to search his garage and might find his bomb; on February 8, 1986, [at] approximately 10 a.m. appellant knew the police had found and had moved the slave bomb; about an hour later, when an expert attempted to dismantle the master bomb, it exploded with a `deafening noise,' dismembering and killing two people.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“necessarily resolved adversely to [them]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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