2 Cal. 4th 629 - People v. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
436 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 458 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Tuilaepa v. California (1994), 9 Cal. 4th 83 - People v. Crittenden (1994)
436 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. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Batson v. Kentucky · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 458 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the conviction (1) reflects on honesty and (2) is near in time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“any sympathetic or other aspect of the defendant's character or record that the defendant offers as a basis for a sentence less than death, whether or not related to the offense for which he is on trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The confrontation clause allows `trial judges ... wide latitude ... to impose reasonable limits on ... cross-examination based on concerns about, among other things, harassment, prejudice, confusion of the issues, the witness' safety, or interrogation that is repetitive or only marginally relevant.' ( Delaware v. Van Arsdall [(1986) 475 U.S. 673 ,] 679 [ 89 L.Ed.2d 674, 683 , 106 S.Ct. 1431 ] [speaking specifically of cross-examination on bias, but without limitation thereto].) The court here did no more than it was permitted.”
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.