People v. Hernandez

How courts have described this case

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

• applying proximate cause theory due to statutory language holding a person culpable when, during the commission of a felony, he or an accomplice \causes the death\ of a person
• “When the intervening acts of another party are supervening or unforeseeable, the necessary causal chain is broken, and there is no liability for the [original actor].”
• felony murder conviction upheld since it was foreseeable that when defendant moved toward officer with gun drawn that shots would be fired and someone might get hit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Cahill
  New York Court of Appeals· 2003-11-25· cited 177×
• United States v. Mark Kevin Hicks
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-07-31· cited 96×
• State v. Winbush
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2017-02-24· cited 55×
• State v. Nolan (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2014-11-05· cited 54×
• People v. Stokes
  New York Court of Appeals· 1996-10-10· cited 40×
• The People v. Matthew A. Davis
  New York Court of Appeals· 2016-11-21· cited 32×
• State v. Mays
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2012-03-02· cited 21×
• State v. Pina
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2010-03-18· cited 18×
• Comer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-28· cited 18×
• Tyson v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-18· cited 17×
• People v. Monserate
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1998-12-01· cited 16×
• People v. Mateo
  New York County Courts· 1997-08-25· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Tejeda
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-12-02· cited 14×
• People v. Nieves
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-11-01· cited 13×
• State v. Schaeffer
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2015-08-31· cited 12×
• People v. Manos
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-05-20· cited 12×
• State v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-05-12· cited 11×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-11-15· cited 11×
• People v. Walker
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-09-28· cited 10×
• People v. Dove
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1996-11-27· cited 10×

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Bolden
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-02-25· cited 698×
• People v. Cable
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-10-30· cited 397×
• People v. Washington
  California Supreme Court· 1965-05-25· cited 351×
• People v. Kern
  New York Court of Appeals· 1990-03-29· cited 269×
• Commonwealth v. Redline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-10· cited 229×
• People v. Kibbe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-11-27· cited 186×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Smith v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-30· cited 143×
• People v. Stewart
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-11-23· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Balliro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-07-02· cited 117×
• State v. Hansen
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-11-05· cited 94×
• People v. Wood
  New York Court of Appeals· 1960-05-19· cited 84×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-14· cited 80×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1963-10-16· cited 68×
• Wooden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 59×
• State v. Canola
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1977-04-07· cited 56×
• State v. Severs
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-07-08· cited 44×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-11-12· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1905-09-27· cited 38×
• People v. Austin
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1963-04-05· cited 36×
• State v. Crane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 33×