People v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2020
15 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · People v. Green · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro · 9 Cal. 3d 185 - People v. Milan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is error to give this instruction in the absence of evidence in the People's case which is within the defendant's particular knowledge to explain and to which no explanation is offered”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even where they are only cumulatively used to graphically portray injuries already detailed in the testimony of a doctor witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'terribly gruesome and terribly upsetting.'”
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.