People v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2010
6 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The charge of manslaughter is here without evidential support. 26 Michigan Law Review, 820. Before defendant may be found guilty of wilfulness, or of wantonness and recklessness, which in effect are wilfulness, three necessary elements must be found according to note 69 L. R. A. 516; and text 20 R. C. L. p. 145, heretofore approved by this court: “ (1) Knowledge of a situation requiring the exercise of ordinary care and diligence to avert injury to another. “(2) Ability to avoid the resulting harm by ordinary care and diligence in the use of the means at hand. “(3) The omission to use such care and diligence to avert the threatened danger when to the ordinary mind it must be apparent that the result is likely to prove disastrous to another.” (p. 307)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Clark · People v. Layman
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.