20 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 365 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 372 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 342 - People v. Maury (2003), 37 Cal. 4th 1067 - People v. Guerra (2006)
3 federal appellate · 365 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 · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson · 10 Cal. 4th 764 - People v. Stanley · People v. Alvarez
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 372 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'review the whole record in the light most favorable to the judgment below to determine whether it discloses substantial evidence - that is, evidence which is reasonable, credible, and of solid value - such that a reasonable trier of fact could find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court's exercise of discretion in admitting or excluding evidence is reviewable for abuse [citation] and will not be disturbed except on a showing the trial court exercised its discretion in an arbitrary, capricious, or patently absurd manner that resulted in a manifest miscarriage of justice [citation].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Citation.] Instead, the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
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.