25 Cal. 4th 1124 - People v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 287 - People v. Hughes (2002), 38 Cal. 4th 72 - People v. Jurado (2006)
13 federal appellate · 183 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 51 Cal. 3d 294 - People v. Jones · 22 Cal. 4th 900 - People v. Jenkins · 3 Cal. 4th 195 - People v. Pride · 17 Cal. 3d 687 - People v. Collins · 13 Cal. 4th 1164 - People v. Jackson
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Disagreement as to who the coconspirators were or who did an overt act, or exactly what that act was, does not invalidate a conspiracy conviction, as long as a unanimous jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that a conspirator did commit some overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. When two or more persons combine to commit a crime, the jury need not agree on exactly who did what as long as it is convinced a particular defendant committed the crime regardless of what that defendant's precise role may have been.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the jury need not unanimously agree on the basis or, as the cases often put it, the 'theory' whereby the defendant is guilty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Luo · People v. Webb“consists of an overt act, not a specific overt act.”
4 later decisions 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.