People v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Nathan DUNLAP, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant. (2007), Hill v. State (1978)
2 district · 30 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 Jackson v. Indiana · Leick v. People · Smith v. People · People v. Medina · Starkey v. Bryan
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a release hearing, the scope of inquiry is necessarily broad. The jury must weigh the defendant’s desire for freedom against the risk that, if released, he may harm himself or others. To require the jury to decide this issue in an informational vacuum would be unfair to both the defendant and the public. A jury charged with such a heavy responsibility is entitled to hear all competent evidence relevant to the ultimate issue of whether the defendant meets the legal standard for release. Obviously, this includes evidence of the defendant’s psychiatric history, the circumstances leading to his insanity plea and the resultant commitment, his prognosis for recovery, and all other relevant facts.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Noel · Vialpando v. People“no abnormal mental condition which would be likely to cause him to be dangerous either to himself or to others or to the community in the reasonably foreseeable future.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. State · Vialpando v. People“[T]he jury's function ends with its determination whether or not the defendant is eligible for release. The decision whether to impose conditions on release is solely for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vialpando v. People
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.