3 Smith & H. 68 - Letner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 271 - People v. Roberts (1992), Commonwealth v. Bolish (1955)
40 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Studstill v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * the defendant cannot escape the consequences of his wrongful act by relying upon a supervening cause when such cause naturally resulted from his wrongful act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schaub“. . .`Defendant's act or omission need not be the immediate cause of the death; he is responsible if the direct cause results naturally from his conduct.' . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.