People v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 824 - People v. Burroughs (1984), 49 Cal. 3d 615 - People v. Patterson (1989)
27 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 People v. Ford · People v. Washington · People v. Phillips · People v. Williams · 51 Cal. 2d 142 - People v. Poindexter
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial judge found that defendant's act in furnishing a restricted dangerous drug to the deceased in violation of law was inherently dangerous to human life. His finding in this respect is amply supported by the evidence. It was the uncontroverted testimony of the pathologist that the consumption of phenobarbital in unknown strength was dangerous to human life. There was clear evidence that within a period of one-half hour this drug was consumed in considerable quantity by [the victim] in defendant's presence and with his knowledge. Even defendant admitted that the deceased consumed 15 of these pills within one-half hour.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[A] homicide that is a direct causal result of the commission of a felony inherently dangerous to human life ... constitutes at least second degree murder." However, there can be no deterrent where the felony is not inherently dangerous, since the potential felon will not anticipate that any injury or death might arise solely from the fact that he will commit the felony. [Citations omitted.] ..... Only such felonies as are in themselves "inherently dangerous to human life" can support the application of the felony-murder doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] homicide that is a direct causal result of the commission of a felony inherently dangerous to human life ... constitutes at least second degree murder.”
1 later decision 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.