People v. Braxton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Gonzales · People v. Germany · People v. Roark · State v. Messier · People v. Johnson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not require a finding that the defendant was committing the predicate felony at the time he caused a death. [Als a matter of law, ... the sequence of events is irrelevant as long as sufficient evidence is produced to show that a felony was committed by the defendant and that a death occurred during the commission of that felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Phillips
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.