People v. Herron’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
12 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On October 17, 1995, after drinking alcohol and ingesting a controlled substance, phencyclidine (PCP), defendant drove a U-Haul truck at an immoderate rate of speed and in an erratic manner on the streets of Grosse Pointe Woods. He struck one car, causing it to spin around, then drove on, striking another vehicle head-on, killing the driver, Christina Comito. These events occurred on a clear fall day at approximately 3:30 P.M., just as a nearby middle school was dismissing students for the day and traffic on the roads was heavy. Blood tests performed later on defendant revealed the presence of PCP, but no alcohol.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n cases in which no successive prosecutions problem arises, but in which a defendant has been punished doubly ‘for offenses arising out of a single transaction but that could not have been exacted in a single proceeding,’ it is an appropriate remedy in a multiple punishment double jeopardy violation to affirm the conviction of the higher charge and to vacate the lower conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““the killing of another without malice and unintentionally, ... in negligently doing some act lawful in itself, or by the negligent omission to perform a legal duty.” The kind of negligence required for manslaughter is something more than ordinary or simple negligence, however, and is often described as “criminal negligence” or “gross negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.