28 Cal. 3d 264 - People v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), 33 Cal. 3d 572 - People v. Fosselman (1983)
3 federal appellate · 176 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Trop v. Dulles · Proffitt v. Florida
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[44] Indeed, when the matter came up at trial Veganes did object on the ground of lack of notice, and the court advised the prosecutor that such evidence would be excluded if he offered it at the penalty phase. [45] The police report was admitted into evidence at the reference hearing (petitioner's exhibit 12), and hence is before us. [46] Roberts and Slifer had recently turned 16; the hour was a few minutes before midnight. [47] Petitioner was just short of 19 years old. [48] The fight was apparently not all one-sided: the girls told the police that as Roberts was getting back on her feet,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Reviewing courts should avoid second-guessing counsel's informed choice among tactical alternatives, but a defense attorney's freedom to make such decisions is not without limits. Every person accused of a criminal offense is entitled to constitutionally adequate legal assistance. [Citation.] That right is denied if trial counsel makes a critical tactical decision which would not be made by diligent, ordinarily prudent lawyers in criminal cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“on this record he would probably have had a better chance of receiving a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole if his counsel had made no argument at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.