People v. Risenhoover’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2002
24 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California · 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado · 63 Cal. 2d 400 - In Re Spencer · People v. Ketchel
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no review of the conviction could be had as to the issues of guilt and sanity until after the penalty retrial, ... a retrial of the penalty issue alone would be an idle, wasteful and time-consuming act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because (i) the court retained jurisdiction over the case pending retrial on the issue of penalty, (ii) the Penal Code sections concerning new trials do not specifically forbid a second motion for new trial or an order vacating and changing an order granting or denying a new trial before judgment, (iii) the development of the furcated trial and the repeal of a defendant's right to appeal from an order denying a new trial, make possible the development of adventitious circumstances, as in this case, that can be most expeditiously resolved in the trial court, and (iv) the People have the right to appeal from a second or any other order granting a new trial, as was done in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The application for a new trial must be made and determined before judgment or the making of an order granting probation, whichever first occurs, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hales
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.