23 Cal. 4th 101 - People v. Lasko’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 163 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno · 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel · 19 Cal. 4th 142 - People v. Breverman · 27 Cal. 2d 164 - People v. Bender
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an intentional act, the natural consequences of which are dangerous to life, which act was deliberately performed by a person who knows that his conduct endangers the life of another and who acts with conscious disregard for life.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]mplied malice is shown when `the defendant for a base, antisocial motive and with wanton disregard for human life, does an act that involves a high degree of probability that it will result in death.' ... A defendant who acts with the requisite actual belief in the necessity for self-defense does not act with the base motive required for implied malice, i.e., with `an abandoned and malignant heart.' [Citation.] A contrary conclusion, namely, that imperfect self-defense applies only in cases of express, but not implied, malice would lead to a totally anomalous and absurd result, in which a defendant, who unreasonably believes that his life is in imminent danger, would be guilty only of manslaughter if he acts with the intent to kill his perceived assailant, but would be guilty of murder if he does not intend to kill, but only to seriously injure, the assailant. There is no authority to support such an incongruous rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“ the unreasonable but good faith belief in having to act in self-defense [citations].' ( Barton, supra, 12 Cal.4th at p. 199 [ 47 Cal. Rptr.2d 569 , 906 P.2d 531 ].)”
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.