People v. De Leon’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2016
22 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.
Relationships
Relies on 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel · 32 Cal. 3d 307 - People v. Wickersham · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · 53 Cal. 3d 771 - People v. Cooper · 54 Cal. 3d 1103 - People v. Saille
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is hard to fault appellant’s logic. If there was substantial evidence of his ‘honest belief’ for self-defense purposes, there was substantial evidence of his ‘honest belief’ for imperfect self-defense purposes. “But we are satisfied, and so hold, there was not substantial evidence of ‘honest belief’ for either self-defense or imperfect self-defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rodriguez“Flannel [, supra, 25 Cal.3d 668 ] relied upon the expanded mental component of malice in formulating its imperfect self-defense doctrine, its reliance was only partial. Independent of this expanded mental component and independent of diminished capacity, Flannel regarded imperfect self-defense as a factor which just like `the statutorily suggested”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.