People v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
185 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 510 - People v. Geiger (1984), 19 Cal. 4th 108 - People v. Birks (1998)
185 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 Daniels v. People · People v. Moya · People v. Cardwell · Schott v. People · Payne v. People
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a defendant acquiesces in placing a lesser [non-included] crime before the jury, the requested instruction allows the jury to consider fully the elements of the crime charged and of the offense the defendant contends was involved....” (emphasis added)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[A] theory of the case instruction which permits the jury to find a defendant innocent of the principal charge and guilty of a lesser charge should be given when warranted by the evidence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. People · People v. Skinner“a defendant is entitled to have the court instruct the jury on the defense theory of the case as revealed by the evidence.”
3 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.