21 Cal. 4th 903 - People v. Falsetta’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 353 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 373 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 204 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Donoho (2003), 26 Cal. 4th 81 - People v. Catlin (2001)
8 federal appellate · 353 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 Estelle v. McGuire · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Patterson v. New York · Old Chief v. United States · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell
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 373 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'nature, relevance, and possible remoteness [of the evidence], the degree of certainty of its commission and the likelihood of confusing, misleading, or distracting the jurors from their main inquiry, its similarity to the charged offense, its likely prejudicial impact on the jurors, the burden on the defendant in defending against the uncharged offense, and the availability of less prejudicial alternatives to its outright admission, such as admitting some but not all of the defendant's other sex offenses.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n a criminal action in which the defendant is accused of a sexual offense, evidence of the defendant's commission of another sexual offense or offenses is not made inadmissible by Section 1101, if the evidence is not inadmissible pursuant to Section 352.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence has been introduced for the purpose of showing that the defendant engaged in an offense involving domestic vio lence on one or more occasions other than that charged in the case. "Domestic violence” means abuse committed against an adult who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or person with whom the defendant is having or has had a dating or engagement relationship. "Cohabitant” means two unrelated adult persons living together for a substantial period of time, resulting in some permanency of relationship. Factors that may determine whether persons are cohabiting include, but are not limited to, sexual relations between the parties while sharing the same living quarters, sharing of income or expenses, joint use or ownership of property, whether the parties hold themselves out as husband and wife, the continuity of the relationship^] and the length of the relationship. "Abuse” means intentionally or recklessly causing or attempting to cause bodily injury, or placing another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent serious bodily injury to himself or herself, or another. If you find that the defendant committed a prior offense involving domestic violence, you may, but are not required to, infer that the defendant had a disposition to commit the same or similar type offenses. If you find that the defendant had this disposition, you may, but are not required to, infer that he was likely to commit and did commit the crime of which he is accuse”
3 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.