People v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 46 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Morris (1988), 16 Cal. 3d 101 - People v. Disbrow (1976)
38 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 Bruton v. United States · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama · Bridges v. Wixon · People v. Aranda
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a witness has admitted bias, the court should not permit his rehabilitation by inquiry into the causes by which he justifies his bias.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n assumption that the jury considered this evidence only to measure credibility would be unrealistic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Odom“not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Odom
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.