People v. Windfield’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · Miller v. Alabama · Miller v. Alabama · Graham v. Florida
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the fact finder can rationally infer from the type and extent of force employed in the defendant's attack on the primary target that the defendant intentionally created a zone of fatal harm, and (2) whether the nontargeted alleged attempted murder victim inhabited that zone of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'despite the recognition, or with acceptance of the fact, that a natural and probable consequence of that act would be that anyone within [the kill] zone could or would die.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Medina
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.