State v. Fennell’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 28 Cal. 4th 313 - People v. Bland (2002), Commonwealth v. Melton (2002)
6 federal appellate · 76 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 United States v. Bailey · 18 Cal. 4th 470 - People v. Flood · State v. Hinton · State v. Worlock · 111 Md. App. 401 - Harvey 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[a] person who, acting with malice, unleashes a deadly force in an attempt to kill or injure an intended victim should anticipate that the law will require him to answer fully for his deeds when that force kills or injures an unintended victim. Accordingly, we hold that the doctrine of transferred intent may be used to convict a defendant of ABIK [assault and battery with intent to kill] when the defendant kills the intended victim and also injures an unintended victim."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“from the defendant's brain to another person or place. A more apt description might be that the mental state is like a spotlight emanating from its source-the defendant's mind-to its target-the intended victim. Nor is that mental state in limited supply. The mental state”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Smith“I charge you the offense of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature is defined as an unlawful act of violent injury to the person of another accompanied by circumstances of aggravation. The use of a deadly or dangerous weapon or the infliction of serious bodily harm are recognized as circumstances of aggravation. I charge you assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature is an assault and battery committed with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrumentality without malice but in a spirit of wantonness and with a reckless disregard for the rights and safety of others. Assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, ladies and gentlemen, contains all of the elements of voluntary manslaughter except the actual death of the person assaulted. So, before a defendant could be found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, the jury must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that if the person assaulted had died as a result of the injury inflicted upon him by the defendant, the defendant would have been guilty of voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tyler
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.