People v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 526 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 583 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably 25 Cal. 4th 826 - Aguilar v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (2001), Deck v. Missouri (2005)
18 federal appellate · 526 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Mapp v. Ohio · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Delaware v. Prouse
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 583 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant maintains that his Wheeler [-] Batson claim must be resolved in his favor on the ground that the record on appeal is not adequate to permit meaningful review. The deficiency of which he complains is the absence of certain questionnaires, which were completed by prospective jurors, then lodged with the superior court, subsequently lost by its clerk's office, and finally determined by the superior court to be beyond reconstruction. A criminal defendant is indeed entitled to a record on appeal that is adequate to permit meaningful review. That is true under California law. [Citation.] It is true as well under the United States Constitutionunder the Fourteenth Amendment generally, and under the Eighth Amendment specifically when a sentence of death is involved. [Citation.] The record on appeal is inadequate, however, only if the complained-of deficiency is prejudicial to the defendant's ability to prosecute his appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ayala v. Wong · Ayala v. Wong“'Broadly speaking, an appellate court reviews any ruling by a trial court as to the admissibility of evidence for abuse of discretion.' ( People v. Alvarez (1996) 14 Cal.4th 155 , 201, 58 Cal.Rptr.2d 385 , 926 P.2d 365 .)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“` in addition to any other [enhancement or] punishment provisions which may apply' [citations]....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.