People v. McNutt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 17 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On consideration of all these authorities we find no substantial difference between wilful misconduct and reckless driving, and conclude that they are in truth the same thing, so far as they are concerned with the state of mind of the driver whose conduct is in question, so that the decisions construing the term ‘wilful misconduct’ may be applied to the statutory provision prohibiting ‘reckless driving’.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Allison · 101 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 932 - People v. Allison

2. “in wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 101 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 932 - People v. Allison · 113 Cal. App. 3d 294 - People v. Cotton

3. “`Wilful misconduct implies at least the intentional doing of something either with a knowledge that serious injury is a probable (as distinguished from a possible) result, or the intentional doing of an act with a wanton and reckless disregard of its possible result.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 113 Cal. App. 3d 294 - People v. Cotton