Cunningham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2015
1 federal appellate · 20 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Shead v. State · 375 So. 2d 840 - Downer v. State · Weinshenker v. State · Olcott 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he killing of a human being by the ... culpable negligence [2] of another, without lawful justification ... and in cases in which such killing shall not be excusable homicide or murder ... shall be deemed manslaughter ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he dispositive question is whether the decedent's act was the superseding cause, so devoid of relation to the culpable negligence of appellant that appellant should not be assessed with the blame for what ultimately transpired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In logic, all the antecedents which coalesce in the occurrence of an event are its causes; the concern of the law is more immediate.”
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.