32 Cal. 4th 863 - People v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court · 30 Cal. 3d 290 - People v. Watson · 17 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Loeun · 17 Cal. 4th 468 - People v. Dennis · 28 Cal. 4th 313 - People v. Bland
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In battering and shooting [the woman], defendant acted with knowledge of the danger to and conscious disregard for life in general. That is all that is required for implied malice murder. He did not need to be specifically aware how many potential victims his conscious disregard for life endangered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a defendant commits an act, the natural consequences of which are dangerous to human life, with a conscious disregard for life in general, he acts with implied malice towards those he ends up killing. There is no requirement the defendant specifically know of the existence of each victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[I]mplied malice has both a physical and a mental component, the physical component being the performance "`of an act, the natural consequences of which are dangerous to life,'”
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.