27 Cal. 4th 1230 - People v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 215 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably 37 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Moon (2005), 52 Cal. 4th 856 - People v. Clark (2011)
9 federal appellate · 215 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 Smith v. Phillips · Lockhart v. McCree · Rideau v. Louisiana · Tanner v. United States · McDonald v. Pless
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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In assessing the sufficiency of the evidence, we review the entire record in the light most favorable to the judgment to determine whether it discloses evidence that is reasonable, credible, and of solid value such that a reasonable trier of fact could find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.' [Citation.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] fine line exists between using one's background in analyzing the evidence, which is appropriate, even inevitable, and injecting 'an opinion explicitly based on specialized information obtained from outside sources,' which we have described as [juror] misconduct. [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to determine whether the penalty is disproportionate to defendant's personal culpability.”
2 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.