People v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A defendant who, in the commission of a robbery, knowingly and with specific intent to inflict great bodily injury either aids and abets in, or advices [ sic ] and encourages the infliction of great bodily injury by a co-perpetrator upon a victim, is equally responsible under the law with his co-perpetrator for the infliction of great bodily injury even though the defendant did not himself directly and actively inflict such injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 31 Cal. 3d 568 - People v. Cole

2. “[t]he fact that a defendant has been drinking, without evidence that he became intoxicated thereby, provides no basis for an instruction on intoxication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Stevenson

3. “effectuated by holding the defendant liable to the increased penalty whether or not he personally wielded the instrument which inflicted the injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 31 Cal. 3d 568 - People v. Cole