People v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

46 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “cannot be voluntary manslaughter because voluntary manslaughter requires either an intent to kill or a conscious disregard for life.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Warner · Davis v. Johnson

2. “[t]o allow such use of the felony-murder rule would effectively preclude the jury from considering the issue of malice aforethought in all cases wherein homicide has been committed as a result of a felonious assault-a category which includes the great majority of all homicides.... We therefore hold that a second degree felony-murder instruction may not properly be given when it is based upon a felony which is an integral part of the homicide and which the evidence produced by the prosecution shows to be an offense included in fact within the offense charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Cal. 5th 921 - People v. Powell

3. “Under the felony-murder doctrine, when the defendant or an accomplice kills someone during the commission, or attempted commission, of an inherently dangerous felony, the defendant is liable for either first or second degree murder, depending on the felony committed. If the felony is listed in section 189, the murder is of the first degree ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Johnson