Bustamonte v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably People v. Gladney (1977), People v. Madson (1981)
28 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 Alford v. United States · United States v. Stoehr · Archina v. People · Fahey v. Clark · State v. Board
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The People had the right to attempt to rebut her alleged lack of capacity to form a specific intent .... And Bernal’s testimony was not rendered improper because it happened to include evidence of another offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Pacheco
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.