People v. Moraga’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2002
16 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 People v. Selby · People v. Walker · 166 Cal. App. 2d 103 - People v. Baumgartner · People v. Herrera · People v. Watson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The attitude and conduct of jurors at the outset of their deliberations are matters of considerable importance. It is rarely productive of good for a juror upon entering the jury room to make an emphatic expression of his opinion on the case or to announce a determination to stand for a certain verdict. When one does that at the outset his sense of pride may be aroused, and he may hesitate to recede from an announced position, if shown it is false. Remember that you are not partisans or advocates, but rather judges. The final test for quality of your service will lie in the verdict that you return to the Court, and not in the opinion any of you may hold as you retire. Have in mind that you will make a definite contribution to the efficient judicial administration if you arrive at a just and proper verdict in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryant
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.