People v. Sutic’s Empirical Analysis

1953

Citation profile

159

cited by 159 later decisions

states following

December 2004

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 151 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964), 59 Cal. 2d 713 - People v. Haven (1963)

2 federal appellate · 151 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 40 Cal. 2d 876 - People v. Daugherty · People v. Carmen · 27 Cal. 2d 478 - People v. Adamson · 24 Cal. 2d 177 - People v. Alcalde · 31 Cal. 2d 92 - People v. Tuthill

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

““Where a person purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice attempts to kill one person but by mistake or inadvertence kills another instead, the law transfers the felonious intent from the object of his assault and the homicide so committed is murder in the first degree.” (People v. Suesser, 142 Cal. 354, 367 [ 75 P. 1093 ]; People v. Sutic, supra, pp. 491-492 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. People v. Steward
“that the homicide was the result of defendant's intent to kill and was accomplished by his `lying in wait' until the opportune time to strike....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 46 Cal. 2d 540 - People v. Merkouris
“part of defendant's plan to take his victim later by surprise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 46 Cal. 2d 540 - People v. Merkouris

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.