People v. Angelo’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Welansky (1944), Williams v. State (2007)
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 People v. . Rosenheimer · Brown v. Shyne · The People v. . Buddensieck
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Culpable’ has been defined as ‘guilty, criminal, deserving punishment or condemnation’, and more mildly as ‘deserving blame or censure, blameworthy’. (Oxford Dictionary.) It may be said that any negligence resulting in injury to another is blameworthy. Were this the meaning of the Legislature the use of the adjective is superfluous. In truth, however, our criminal law has an historic background. Criminal negligence is no new invention. We did not first use the word culpable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuhs v. Swenson“Under a given state of facts, whether negligence is culpable is a question of judgment. Ordinarily for the judgment of the jury, as is the question whether negligence exists at all. But in the one case as in the other it may become a question of law. If the negligence is so slight as not to reach the required standard the court should advise an acquittal of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State““ ‘Culpable’ negligence is therefore something more than the slight negligence necessary to support a civil action for damages. It means, disregard of the consequences which may ensue from the act, and indifference to the rights of others. No clearer definition, applicable to the hundreds of varying circumstances that may arise, can be given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuhs v. Swenson
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.