21 Cal. 4th 1016 - People v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 23 Cal. 4th 978 - People v. Kraft (2000), 22 Cal. 4th 1153 - People v. Riel (2000)
134 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.
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Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`if the juror's statements are equivocal or conflicting, the trial court's determination of the juror's state of mind is binding. If there is no inconsistency, we will uphold the court's ruling if it is supported by substantial evidence. [Citations.]' [Citation.] A juror's bias need not `be proven with unmistakable clarity. [Citations.] Rather, it is sufficient that the trial judge is left with the definite impression that a prospective juror would be unable to faithfully and impartially apply the law in the case before the juror.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the witnesses did not establish the gun necessarily was the murder weapon, it might have been. Unlike People v. Riser , supra , 47 Cal.2d at page 577 , 305 P.2d 1 , this evidence did not merely show that defendant was a person who possesses guns, but showed he possessed a gun that might have been the murder weapon .... The evidence was thus relevant and admissible as circumstantial evidence that he committed the charged offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court may excuse for cause a prospective juror whose view on the death penalty would prevent or substantially impair the performance of the juror's duties. On appeal, we uphold the trial court's ruling if the record fairly supports it, and we accept as binding the trial court's determination of the juror's true state of mind if the juror has made conflicting or ambiguous statements.”
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.