People v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 14071 (§ 170101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Frazier v. People · Woellhaf v. People · Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. City of Golden · People v. Weiss · People v. Cook
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires that we read 'stranger to the offender' as meaning either the victim is a stranger to the offender or the offender is a stranger to the victim, when analyzed at the time the offense was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hunter“nothing in the statute indicates that the [relationship] criterion is met when the victim knows the offender, but is unable to identify him, as was the case here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hunter“[the danger to the public that the perpetrator may reoffend exists in both settings, and [his] interpretation [therefore] gives effect to the entire statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hunter
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.