State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. White (1995), State v. Bruton (1996)
32 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 State v. Smith · State v. Powell · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Bullard · State v. Redfern
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]roximate cause is a cause that produced the result in continuous sequence and without which it would not have occurred, and one from which any man of ordinary prudence could have foreseen that such a result was probable under all the facts as they existed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, without premeditation and deliberation, and without intention to kill or inflict serious bodily injury. Involuntary manslaughter may also be defined as the unintentional killing of a human being without malice, proximately caused by (1) an unlawful act not amounting to a felony nor naturally dangerous to human life, or (2) a culpably negligent act or omission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the State, shows that [Defendant] fled from [the arresting officer’s] attempted lawful stop[;] . . . that [the assisting officer] . . . sped to provide assistance and apprehend [Defendant]; [and] that on his way, [the assisting officer] . .. perished after unsuccessfully attempting to avoid [an] obstruction. In our view, this evidence was sufficient to allow a reasonable jury to conclude (1) that [the assisting officer’s] death would not have occurred had [Defendant] remained stopped after [the arresting officer] pulled him over, and (2) that an injurious result such as [the assisting officer’s] death was reasonably foreseeable under the circumstances. . . . [W]e overrule [Defendant’s] argument that... there was insufficient evidence to show that [Defendant’s] flight proximately caused [the assisting officer’s] death.”
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.