People v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 30 Cal. 3d 290 - People v. Watson (1981), 44 Cal. 2d 861 - People v. Penny (1955)
46 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 132 Cal. App. 124 - Howard v. Howard
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Wilful misconduct implies at least the intentional doing of something either with a knowledge that serious injury is a probable (as distinguished from a possible) result, or the intentional doing of an act with a wanton and reckless disregard of its possible result.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is not any substantial evidence to sustain the trial court’s finding that decedents died as the proximate result of injuries caused by defendant’s driving an automobile “with reckless disregard of, or wilful indifference to the safety of others.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when the death of any person ... (was) caused by the driving of any vehicle with reckless disregard of, or wilful indifference to the safety of others.”
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.