23 Cal. 3d 103 - People v. Teron’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 34 Cal. 3d 251 - People v. Smith (1983), 48 Cal. 3d 1194 - People v. Bloom (1989)
151 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Dobbert v. Florida · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The California Supreme Court has declared the existing death penalty law unconstitutional. This act remedies the constitutional infirmities found to be in existing law, and must take effect immediately in order to guarantee the public the protection inherent in an operative death penalty law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The 1977 legislation ... was enacted to remedy the defects in the 1973 statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because mandatory death penalty statutes were declared unconstitutional....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.