54 Cal. 3d 1032 - People v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 1199 - People v. Ochoa (1993), People v. Fields (1996)
4 federal appellate · 53 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 30 Cal. 3d 290 - People v. Watson · 24 Cal. 3d 890 - Taylor v. Superior Court · 40 Cal. 2d 160 - People v. Costa · People v. McNiece · 172 Cal. App. 3d 984 - People v. Olivas
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]ross negligence is the exercise of so slight a degree of care as to raise a presumption of conscious indifference to the consequences. [Citation.] `The state of mind of a person who acts with conscious indifferences to the consequences is simply,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“' [Citation.] The test is objective: whether a reasonable person in the defendant's position would have been aware of the risk involved. [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The state of mind of a person who acts with conscious indifferences to the consequences is simply, "I don't care what happens.”
2 later decisions 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.