People v. Steinberg’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Miranda (1998), United States v. Scott (2021)
4 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]arents have a nondelegable affirmative duty to provide their children with adequate medical care,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An unlawful killing without premeditation is also murder when the accused had either an intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm. It may be inferred that a person intends the natural and probable consequences of an act purposely done. Hence, if a person does an intentional act likely to result in death or great bodily injury, it may be inferred that death or great bodily injury was intended;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the failure to obtain medical care can ... support a first degree manslaughter charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.