People v. Datema’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2017
5 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) knew the situation required the exercise of ordinary care and diligence to avert injury to another, (2) had the ability to avoid the harm by exercising ordinary care and diligence, and (3) failed to exercise the care and diligence necessary “to avert the threatened danger when to the ordinary mind it must be apparent that the result is likely to prove disastrous to another.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`culpable indifference to the safety of others,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Richardson
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.