People v. O'CONNELL’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably People v. Tillery (2009), People v. Welsh (2007)
31 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 United States v. Olano · Blakely v. Washington · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Frady · United States v. Calverley
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so clear-cut, so obvious, a competent district judge should be able to avoid it without benefit of objection.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the district judge would have had to be clairvoyant to detect the error (perhaps by foreseeing yet undecided court of appeals or Supreme Court case law) the error is not plain and defendant must object as a condition for having it considered on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Stroud“[when the state of the law is unclear at trial and only becomes clear as a result of later authority, the district court's error is perforce not plain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Moore
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.