3 Cal. 3d 82 - People v. Tidwell’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 307 - People v. Wickersham (1982), 25 Cal. 3d 142 - People v. Frierson (1979)
58 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 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · 1 Cal. 3d 379 - People v. Mosher · People v. Phillips · 59 Cal. 2d 722 - People v. Modesto · People v. Graham
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of anything in the record disclosing that counsel had `a deliberate tactical purpose in suggesting, resisting, or acceding to an instruction,' we must assume that counsel merely failed to request the additional instructions because of neglect or mistake, which would be insufficient to nullify the trial court's obligation to properly instruct the jury on all the issues presented in that case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whenever defendant makes a sufficient factual showing of a diminished capacity which would prevent him from forming the requisite specific intent which is a necessary element of the felony charged in a felony-murder prosecution. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the evidence indicates that defendant was unconscious at the time of the offense due to voluntary intoxication, the trial judge should give this supplemental instruction on involuntary manslaughter.”
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.