2 Cal. 4th 870 - People v. Raley’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 363 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 390 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Tuilaepa v. California (1994), 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott (1994)
8 federal appellate · 363 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Estelle v. McGuire · Wainwright v. Witt · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 390 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“( People v. Raley, supra, 2 Cal.4th 870, 888 , quoting People v. Wiley (1976) 18 Cal.3d 162, 168 [ 133 Cal. Rptr. 135 , 554 P.2d 881 ]; see also People v. Bittaker (1989) 48 Cal.3d 1046, 1101 [ 259 Cal. Rptr. 630 , 774 P.2d 659 ]; People v. Davenport (1985) 41 Cal.3d 247, 267 [ 221 Cal. Rptr. 794 , 710 P.2d 861 ].)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a touching of the body of a child under the age of 14, with the specific intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust of the child or the accused. [Citations.] Touching of a sexual organ is not required.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he prosecution was not obliged to prove these details solely from the testimony of live witnesses, and the jury was entitled to see how the physical details of the scene and body supported the prosecution theory.'”
2 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.