People v. . Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• holding even if attempted murder constitutes same offense as murder, Diaz applies
• explaining that if person inflicts dangerous wound on another, it is ordinarily no defense that inadequate medical treatment contributed to death; only grossly improper medieal treatment that is sole cause of death and thus unforeseeable can discharge criminal liability
• prior conviction of rape and attempted murder no bar to murder prosecution when victim died in interim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Coffman
  California Supreme Court· 2004-10-27· cited 855×
• People v. Rogers
  California Supreme Court· 2006-08-21· cited 743×
• People v. Hughes
  California Supreme Court· 2002-04-10· cited 674×
• People v. Fuiava
  California Supreme Court· 2012-02-06· cited 648×
• People v. Lewis
  California Supreme Court· 2001-05-17· cited 616×
• People v. Weaver
  California Supreme Court· 2001-08-20· cited 577×
• People v. Guerra
  California Supreme Court· 2006-03-02· cited 560×
• People v. Barnett
  California Court of Appeal· 1998-05-04· cited 546×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Supreme Court· 2004-08-09· cited 523×
• People v. Dennis
  California Supreme Court· 1998-02-19· cited 497×
• People v. Steele
  California Supreme Court· 2002-05-30· cited 487×
• People v. Riel
  California Supreme Court· 2000-05-18· cited 486×
• People v. Gurule
  California Supreme Court· 2002-07-22· cited 449×
• People v. Hester
  California Supreme Court· 2000-02-17· cited 447×
• People v. Davis
  California Supreme Court· 2005-07-21· cited 359×
• People v. Burgener
  California Supreme Court· 2003-04-09· cited 354×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-11-05· cited 349×
• People v. Crew
  California Supreme Court· 2003-10-29· cited 348×
• People v. Harris
  California Supreme Court· 2005-08-29· cited 324×
• People v. Fairbank
  California Supreme Court· 1997-12-22· cited 323×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Benton v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 4,063×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Estelle v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-21· cited 2,305×
• United States v. Dixon
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 2,221×
• Grady v. Corbin
  Supreme Court· 1990-05-29· cited 1,620×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• People v. Ledesma
  California Supreme Court· 1987-01-02· cited 1,290×
• Diaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1912-02-19· cited 1,035×
• Tuilaepa v. California
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-30· cited 983×
• People v. Pope
  California Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 966×
• Jeffers v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 764×
• People v. Mendoza Tello
  California Supreme Court· 1997-04-17· cited 755×
• People v. Crittenden
  California Supreme Court· 1994-12-22· cited 674×
• People v. Kelly
  California Supreme Court· 1992-01-16· cited 653×
• People v. Anderson
  California Supreme Court· 1987-10-13· cited 613×
• People v. Arias
  California Supreme Court· 1996-04-11· cited 595×
• People v. Davis
  California Supreme Court· 1995-06-19· cited 518×