21 Cal. 3d 513 - People v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), 55 Cal. 4th 428 - In re Reno (2012)
7 federal appellate · 32 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 Anders v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Britt v. North Carolina · Rinaldi v. Yeager
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Cjounsel has a duty to insure that there is an adequate record before the appellate court from which those contentions may be resolved on their merits. Where the appropriate record is missing or incomplete, counsel must see that the defect is remedied, by requesting augmentation or correction of the appellate record ... or by other appropriate means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the principles of the [United States Supreme Court's] Fourteenth Amendment cases apply whenever a state affords a direct or collateral remedy to attack a criminal conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonin v. Vasquez“insufficient [to permit] effective appellate review.”
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.