3 Cal. 4th 959 - People v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably 8 Cal. 4th 1060 - People v. Rodrigues (1994), People v. Holt (1997)
8 federal appellate · 195 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the federal Constitution does not require us to incorporate into our proportionality determination any comparison of defendant's sentence with that of another culpable person, whether charged or uncharged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]o preserve an alleged error for appeal an offer of proof must inform the trial court of the `purpose, and relevance of the excluded evidence....' (Evid.Code, § 354, subd. (a).) This is in accord with `the general rule that questions relating to the admissibility of evidence will not be reviewed on appeal in the absence of a specific and timely objection in the trial court on the ground sought to be urged on appeal. ' [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Proffered evidence is relevant to prove or disprove a disputed fact if: ... [s]uch evidence in the light of logic, reason, experience, or common sense, has, by reasonable inference, a tendency to prove or disprove such disputed fact.' ...”
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.