People v. Vera’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 20 Cal. 4th 826 - People v. Earp (1999), 16 Cal. 4th 826 - People v. Monge (1997)
8 federal appellate · 141 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Hicks v. Oklahoma · 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court will not consider claims of error that could have beenbut were notraised in the trial court. [Citation.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he denial of jury trial is a structural error that can never be harmless, no matter how strong the evidence of guilt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he question whether or not [a defendant] has suffered [a] previous conviction must be tried by the jury which tries the issue upon the plea of not guilty, or in case of a plea of guilty, by a jury impaneled for that purpose....”
2 later decisions 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.