People v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the implementation of a decision to terminate life-support treatment is not the cause of the patient's subsequent death. Instead, the discontinuance of life-support measures merely allows the patient's injury or illness to take its natural and inevitable course.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Abella · State v. Pelham

2. “no separate intervening cause. Rather, we find in these facts only the unsuccessful efforts of the medical community to overcome the harm inflicted by the defendant, and the acceptance by the victim's family of the reality of [the] fatal injuries.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Abella · State v. Pelham

3. “the victim's death was caused by the intervening cause of removal from life support systems that were required to sustain the life of the victim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Abella · State v. Pelham