24 Cal. 3d 199 - People v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 326 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 332 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 10 Cal. 4th 764 - People v. Stanley (1995), 53 Cal. 3d 771 - People v. Cooper (1991)
2 federal appellate · 326 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 Burks v. United States · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Remmer v. United States · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · Greene v. Massey
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 332 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because a defendant charged with crime has a right to the unanimous verdict of 12 impartial jurors [citation], it is settled that a conviction cannot stand if even a single juror has been improperly influenced.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Romero · People v. Pettie“'[M]urder is seldom pretty, and pictures, testimony and physical evidence in such a case are always unpleasant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““that evidence [relating to the 11 juror affidavits] would not have rebutted the presumption that the 12th juror, Seymour, was not impartial. [The defendant] was ‘entitled to be tried by 12, not 9 or even 10, impartial and unprejudiced jurors.’ It would be sheer speculation to assume that absent his conversation with Case, Seymour would necessarily have voted to convict; rather, he might well have held out for acquittal, or even succeeded in persuading his fellow jurors that a reasonable doubt as to [the defendant’s] guilt existed. Because a defendant charged with a crime has a right to the unanimous verdict of 12 impartial jurors, it is settled that a conviction cannot stand if even a single juror has been improperly influenced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. State
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.