20 Cal. 3d 109 - People v. Rollo’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro (1985), 46 Cal. 3d 833 - People v. Crandell (1988)
232 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle · Gordon v. United States · 15 Cal. 3d 79 - People v. Antick · 16 Cal. 3d 211 - People v. Rist
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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ifferent felonies have different degrees of probative value on the issue of credibility. Some, such as perjury, are intimately connected with that issue; others, such as robbery and burglary, are somewhat less relevant; ...”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pierce · State v. Franco“[T]he procedure adopted by the trial court gives the defendant the archetypal Hobson’s choice of (1) remaining silent on the point and subjecting himself to the foregoing improper speculation by the jury, or (2) divulging the nature of his prior conviction and incurring an equally grave risk that the jury will draw an impermissible inference of guilt. Either way leads to prejudice: it is a game, in short, of heads the prosecution wins, tails the defendant loses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Normal human curiosity will inevitably lead to brisk speculation on the nature of that conviction, and the range of such speculation will be limited solely by the imaginations of the individual jurors.”
1 later decision 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.