People v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2010
24 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 Luther v. State · Commonwealth v. Hawkins · Commonwealth v. Adams · State v. Schutte · Tift v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Assault and battery may be committed by striking another with an automobile intentionally, or by driving the machine so recklessly as to justify a jury in finding that there was a reckless disregard of human life and safety. Dennard v. State, 14 Ga. App. 485 , 81 S. E. 378 . The same is true where, under like circumstances, the automobile is driven against another vehicle in which persons are riding, whereby the collision occasions bruises, blows, and similar physical injuries to persons in the vehicle so struck. State v. Lewis, 4 Pennewill (Del.), 332, 55 Atl. 3 . * * ' ❖ * * * * ^ “3. Nor in such a case was it error for the court to charge the jury as follows: ‘Every person is presumed to intend the natural and necessary consequence of his acts.' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While there is very little authority on the question, there seems to be no good reason to doubt that a person may be guilty of criminal assault and battery if he intentionally does an act which by reason of its wanton and grossly negligent character exposes another to personal injury and does in fact cause such injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamburg
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.