25 Cal. 4th 19 - People v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 33 Cal. 4th 780 - Cassim v. Allstate Insurance (2004), 38 Cal. 4th 682 - People v. McGee (2006)
108 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 19 Cal. 4th 142 - People v. Breverman
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right, if any, to a jury trial of prior conviction allegations derives from [Penal Code] sections 1025 and 1158, not from the state or federal Constitution”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“because the right to a jury trial of the prior conviction allegations in this case is purely a creature of state statutory law. [Citations.] When a state need not provide a jury trial at all, it follows that the erroneous denial of that right does not implicate the federal Constitution. [Citations.] *Page 1276 Moreover, because the error is purely one of state law, the Watson harmless error test applies. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[a]n error that violates a defendant's rights under the federal Constitution requires automatic reversal if it constitutes a `structural defect' in the trial. [Citation.] On the other hand, if it represents `simply an error in the trial process' [citation], it is subject to harmless error analysis under the standard the high court announced in Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18 . . . .”
1 later decision 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.