Garrett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Muniz v. State (1993), Dowthitt v. State (1996)
44 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 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland · People v. Moran · State v. Essman · Tarter v. State · People v. Wagner
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a person, (2) committing or attempting to commit kidnapping and robbery, (3) who in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, (4) commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life, (5) that causes the death of an individual.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“application of the felony murder doctrine to situations such as this is an attempt to split into unrelated parts an indivisible transaction,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o allow this would make murder out of every aggravated assault that results in a death”
3 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.