People v. Horrigan’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Lakeside v. Oregon (1978), 71 Cal. 2d 843 - People v. Gardner (1969)
23 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Fahy v. Connecticut · Bruno v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * either comment by the prosecution on the accused's silence or instructions by the court that such silence is evidence of guilt, are forbidden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lakeside“[t]he jury, not otherwise focused [on the defendant's failure to testify], is so directed to it by the instruction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Alaniz
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.