22 Cal. 4th 512 - People v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 55 Cal. 4th 393 - People v. Greg F. (2012), 30 Cal. 4th 1132 - In Re Varnell (2003)
90 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 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) · 13 Cal. 3d 937 - People v. Orin · People v. Wells · Elmore v. American Motors Corp. · 54 Cal. 3d 1103 - People v. Saille
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he judge or magistrate may, either of his or her own motion or upon the application of the prosecuting attorney, and in furtherance of justice, order an action to be dismissed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Insanity, under California law, means that at the time the offense was committed, the defendant was incapable of knowing or understanding the nature of his act or of distinguishing right from wrong. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The `sanity trial is but a part of the same criminal proceeding as the guilt phase' [citation] but differs procedurally from the guilt phase of trial `in that the issue is confined to sanity and the burden is upon the defendant to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was insane at the time of the offense' [citation]. As in the determination of guilt, the verdict of the jury must be unanimous. [Citation.]”
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.