People v. Duffy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting claim that victim’s “act of loading the rifle and using it to kill himself constituted an intervening cause”
• suicide is not a superseding and intervening cause of death that relieves defendant of liability for giving decedent bullets and a gun after decedent expressed suicidal impulses
• suicide is not a superseding and intervening cause of death that relieves defendant of liability for giving decedent bullets and a gun after decedent expressed suicidal impulses
• defendant’s conviction for reckless manslaughter upheld since risk of suicide victim’s act of loading rifle and using it to shoot himself should have been foreseen by defendant since he knew that the victim had been drinking heavily and was in a depressed and suicidal state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Kevorkian
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1994-12-13· cited 68×
• Lofthouse v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-02-24· cited 33×
• People v. Jovanovic
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-12-21· cited 28×
• People v. Mattocks
  New York Court of Appeals· 2009-04-30· cited 24×
• Green v. Abrams
  Second Circuit· 1993-01-12· cited 21×
• People v. Hart
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2004-06-07· cited 8×
• People v. Hernandez
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-10-22· cited 8×
• People v. Duffy
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-07-02· cited 6×
• Govan v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-09-09· cited 5×
• Myers v. Schneiderman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-05-03· cited 5×
• People v. Mattocks
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2008-04-16· cited 5×
• People v. Mahy
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2003-05-22· cited 5×
• People v. Contestabile
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-03-07· cited 4×
• People v. Suquisupa
  New York Supreme Court· 1996-01-03· cited 3×
• People v. Rivera
  New York Court of Appeals· 2011-05-03· cited 2×
• People v. Bartow
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2005-08-08· cited 2×
• Santana v. Kuhlmann
  S.D. New York· 2002-11-13
• Sara Myers, Eric A. Seiff v. Eric Schneiderman
  New York Court of Appeals· 2017-09-07
• The People v. Stan XuHui Li
  New York Court of Appeals· 2019-11-26
• People v. Prim
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-09-28

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Bleakley
  New York Court of Appeals· 1987-05-07· cited 13,541×
• People v. Contes
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-09-01· cited 12,727×
• People v. Cable
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-10-30· cited 397×
• People v. Kibbe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-11-27· cited 186×
• People v. Stewart
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-11-23· cited 143×
• People v. Warner-Lambert Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-11-20· cited 115×
• People v. Cruciani
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-04-01· cited 41×
• People v. Valenza
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-12-01· cited 36×
• People v. Pinckney
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1972-02-07· cited 27×
• People v. Pinckney
  New York Court of Appeals· 1973-04-26· cited 19×
• People v. Galle
  New York Court of Appeals· 1991-04-30· cited 19×