People v. Herrera’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably People v. Thomas (1974), People v. Cooper (2001)
76 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 Brown v. Walker · United States v. Benz · State v. Grant · 160 Tex. Crim. 471 - Gilderbloom v. State · Nix v. James
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments, — the legislative, executive and judicial; and no person or collection of persons charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as in this constitution expressly directed or permitted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"That there has been a significant change in the law, applied to appellant's conviction or sentence, allowing in the interests of justice retroactive application of the changed legal standard." Colo. Sess. Laws 1973, ch. 152, 40-1-510(1) (f) at 533.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Thomas“the legislature [had] sought to confer upon the courts the express power to review sentences after conviction and exhaustion of appellate remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boyd
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.