People v. Marquez’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably People v. Gutierrez (1981), People v. Dailey (1982)
51 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 Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · United States v. Martinez · People v. Patterson · People v. Thomas
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe that no fixed rule with respect to disclosure is justifiable. The problem is one that calls for balancing the public interest in protecting the flow of information against the individual’s right to prepare his defense. Whether a proper balance renders nondisclosure erroneous must depend on the particular circumstances of each case, taking into consideration the crime charged, the possible defenses, the possible significance of the informer’s testimony, and other relevant factors.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Vigil · People v. Flores“[W]hether the informant was an eyewitness and earwitness to the criminal transaction and whether the informer himself is available or could, in the exercise of reasonable diligence, be made available; whether other witnesses to the transaction are in a position to testify; the likelihood that the testimony of the informer will vary significantly from that of other available or potentially available witnesses; whether the defendant himself knows the identity of the informant or could without undue effort discover his identity; whether the informant was deeply or only peripherally involved in the criminal transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that disclosure of the informant's identity would have assisted the defense.). The second factor is whether the informant is or could be made available by the exercise of reasonable diligence. Here, the record shows that the prosecution attempted on at least two occasions to obtain information about the confidential informant from the Canadian authorities. Colorado law enforcement authorities do not know and have never been given the identity of the informant; this information was only available from the Canadian authorities. The trial court's order says that there”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.