49 Cal. 3d 1212 - People v. Dellinger’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 1048 - People v. Berryman (1993), People v. Chun (2009)
16 federal appellate · 114 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 Chapman v. State of California · Sandstrom v. Montana · 30 Cal. 3d 290 - People v. Watson · People v. Phillips · 43 Cal. 3d 666 - People v. Lee
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the killing results from an intentional act, the natural consequences of which are dangerous to life, which act was deliberately performed by a person who knows that his conduct endangers the life of another and who acts with conscious disregard for life”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“' [¶] Two lines of decisions developed, reflecting judicial attempts to `translate this amorphous anatomical characterization of implied malice into a tangible standard a jury can apply.' [Citations.] One strand held that malice could be implied where `the defendant for a base, antisocial motive and with wanton disregard for human life, does an act that involves a high degree of probability that it will result in death.' [Citations.] The alternate strand held that malice could be implied where the killing was proximately caused by `”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.